Great Depression/New Deal

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

takes place when many depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time.

• bank run

• Stock Market Crash

• long bull market

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

This is making a very risky investment in the stock market, in hopes of earning a large profit

• Speculation 
• Buying on Margin 
• Bank Run 
• Bull Stock 

The purpose of FDR’s Social Security program was to—  

• Provide homes for children orphaned and abandoned during the Great Depression.

• Encourage social activism, specifically supporting women’s rights.

• Ensure all members of society had the “security” of their own home or apartment.

• Provide benefits for retired people and the unemployed through a payroll tax.

Buying stocks ​ ​ (a)   , when people borrowed money to buy stocks they could not afford, was a cause of the Great Depression.

• on margin
• on militarism
• overproduction
• in good standing
• cash only

The​ (a)   is where shares of companies are bought and sold.

• stock market
• super market
• depression
• bank