Great Depression Vocabulary Review

__________________________ - A government agency formed during the Great Depression to oversee implementation of the NIRA and encourage businesses to comply with its mandates.

__________________________ - A series of government programs implemented by Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s to provide relief to those affected by the Great Depression, help the economy recover from the Great Depression, and reform business and government practices in an attempt prevent another major depression.

__________________________ - A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interference from the government.

__________________________ - An area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion caused by drought and windstorms in the early 1930s, which forced many people to move.

__________________________ - A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18-25 from relief families as part of the New Deal.

__________________________ - FDR’s plan to increase the size of the Supreme Court to change the balance of its decisions when some of his New Deal legislation was at risk of being declared unconstitutional.

__________________________ - A U.S. government agency that oversees securities transactions, activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception.

__________________________ - The popular name for some 43,000 marchers including U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates issued years earlier by the U.S. government.

__________________________ - The ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.

__________________________ - A government insurance program that provides benefits to retired people and those who are unemployed or disabled.