Great depression

Period of time beginning in 1929 and lasting through the 1930s where people lost jobs and didn’t have enough food; the economy took a downfall

• The Great Depression

• The Great Recession

• The New Deal

President (Republican) during the 1929 stock market crash.  Believed cities, states, and banks should try to lead in the recovery before the federal government because the fear of a growing national debt. Did little to improve the economy

• President Herbert Hoover

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• The New Deal

shantytowns, communities of makeshift shacks on unused or public land nicknamed after President Herbert Hoover

• Hoovervilles

• Rooseveltvilles

• margin call

drought-related conditions in the Great Plains states.

• Dust Bowl

• Acai Bowl

• Duster

helped Americans recover from the Depression

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• President Herbert Hoover

• Dust Bowl

Roosevelt’s policies for ending the Depression

• New Deal

• Real Deal

• Square Deal

Program that provided aid to people with disabilities and pensions for retired workers

• Social Security

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Works Progress Administration

The Social Security Act is often considered part of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Second New Deal" because it

• offered payments to those who were retired or unemployed.

• made all employers allow their workers to join a labor union.

• had to be amended and added twice before Congress would pass it.

• was part of the President's plans to enact programs that would offer long-range governmental reform.

This photograph is called "Migrant Mother," and was MOST associated with which of these issues?

• Families losing their homes as a result of the Dust Bowl.

• Families losing their savings as a result of the stock market crash.

• Families losing their jobs as a result of underconsumption of goods.

• Families sending their children to live with relatives due to unemployment.

The purpose of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) was

• to insure bank deposits in the United States.

• to provide job opportunities in national parks.

• to reduce farm surpluses and raise agricultural profits.

• provide electrical power to an underdeveloped region of the U.S.