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WorksheetsGreat Depression Vocabulary
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
This is what sparked the Great Depression
WWI veterans who wanted early military bonus
Name given to Great Plains because of severe drought
Strike where workers/people stay and refuse to leave
Stock market crashed(Black Tuesday)
Author who wrote The Grapes of Wrath which showed life during
Depression
Mary M. Bethune
Eleanor Roosevelt
Woody Guthrie
John Steinbeck
Great Depression-
Stock market crashed
Long economic crisis that took place during the 1930s
Financial aid to the elderly, disabled, children, and the unemployed
Roosevelt’s plan to help economic recovery
Radio address by Roosevelt
Speculation
Great Depression Radio
Fireside Chats
Bonfire Discussions
Name given to Great Plains because of severe drought
Dust Bowl
Investor
Black Tuesday
Bonus Army
Eleanor Roosevelt-
Secretary of Labor and first woman cabinet member
First Lady/Wife of FDR and supported New Deal Programs
(D) Elected President in 1932
Popular folk singer songs reflected the struggles of the time
Financial aid to the elderly, disabled, children, and the unemployed
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security Act
Congress of Industrial Organization
New Deal
Roosevelt’s plan to help economic recovery
Great Depression
Treaty of Versailles
New Deal
4 Day Bank Holiday
Someone who buys stocks
Speculator
Investor
Woody Guthrie
Carpetbagger
Franklin D. Roosevelt(FDR)
(D) Elected President in 1932
Secretary of Labor and first woman cabinet member
Author who wrote The Grapes of Wrath which showed life during
Depression
African American woman educator to be appointed to Roosevelt’s
Administration
What are the three(3) reasons for the Great Depression?
Farmers' income levels were low
People overspeculated on stocks, using borrowed money that they could not repay
Banks and Businesses Failed
High tariffs discouraged international trade.
The Federal Reserve system failed to prevent the collapse of a banking system
A majority of people during the Great Depression were ____ and _____.
rich and poor
rich and wealthy
hungry and homeless
happy and contnet
President at the beginning of the Great Depression?
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
October 29, 1929 was called?
Black Tuesday
Depressed Wednesday
Stock Sunday
Terrible Tuesday
The up and down pattern in an economic system
stock pattern
investment
business cycle
depression
To put in place
organize
implement
Depress
buying on margin
Hired people to build dams and generators to bring electricity/jobs to TN River Valley
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
New Deal
John Steinbeck
Strike where workers refuse to leave
Homestead Strike
Pullman strike
Sit Down Strike
Refusal Strike
Labor union that placed workers in unions based on industry they worked
Labor Union
Congress of Industrial Organizations
FDIC
Federal Reserve
