The Great Depression
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| 600502760 | The Great Crash | the collapse of the stock market in 1929; Black tuesday | |
| 600502761 | Reparations | payment for damages after a war | |
| 600502762 | Bread Lines | Groups of hungry people waiting outside charitable organizations for free meals during the Great Depression | |
| 600502763 | Dustbowl | a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 | |
| 600502764 | Resettlement Administration | Administration that helps move farmers away from Dust Bowl stricken areas | |
| 600502765 | Okies | the farmers, who in the Great Depression, were forced to move | |
| 600502766 | Black Shirts | supporters of mussolini, broke up socialist rallies, smashed leftists presses and attacked farmer's cooperatives | |
| 600502767 | Scottsboro Case | The arrest and conviction of nine likely innocent black teenagers in Alabama in 1931. | |
| 600502768 | Walter White | NAACP, mixed..so he was able to get info from whites; made his top priority to stop lynching, never got anti lynching bill passed | |
| 600502769 | Chicanos | mexican americans | |
| 600502770 | Depression Families | This was a name given to families suffering for families suffering from the depression. They had to band together through unemployment and poverty | |
| 600502771 | Socialist Party | a political party in the United States formed in 1900 to advocate socialism | |
| 600502772 | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | Book by James Agee and photographs by Walker Evans, showed sharecroppers lives during the depression. Also showed harsh lives and treatment | |
| 600502773 | The Grapes of Wrath | The story follows the fortunes of a poor family as they travel from the Dust Bowl region to California. based on the great depression written by John Steinbeck | |
| 600502774 | Soap Operas | Popular radio dramas | |
| 600502775 | Frank Capra | director who focused on the strength of average Americans | |
| 600502776 | Herbert Hoover | Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. | |
| 600502777 | Hawley-Smoot Act | a law, enacted in 1930, that established the highest protective tariff in U.S. history, worsening the depression in America and abroad. | |
| 600502778 | Hoovervilles | shanty-towns that housed many who had lost everything. Shelters were built of old boxes and other discards. | |
| 600502779 | Depression culture | Photographers captured the emotion of The Depression, people went to the movies, families crowded around their radio, classic novels such as Gone With the Wind were read. | |
| 600502780 | Affluence and Consumerism | Accepted in the Pre-Depression time period and remained unchanged during The Depression. People still worked hard to achieve goals. | |
| 600502781 | Robert and Helen Merrell Lynd | Coauthored the classic sociological book, Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture. | |
| 600502782 | Success ethic | Was the idea that people were in control of their own fate and if they showed sufficient talent, they would succeed. | |
| 600502783 | Economic royalists | Business people Roosevelt charged with seeking only their own power and wealth by opposing the New Deal. | |
| 600502784 | Dale Carnegie | author of How to Win Friends and Influence People | |
| 600502785 | Documentary photographers | Captured the harsh realitites of The Great Depression, in most cases depicting extreme poverty. | |
| 600502786 | Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell | |
| 600502787 | Native Son | Richard Wright | |
| 600502788 | Walt Disney | Film maker, cartoonist, visionary. He developed many famous characters as well as amusement theme parks. | |
| 600502789 | Mae West | actress who portrayed herself as an overtly sexual woman manipulating men through her attractiveness | |
| 600502790 | Life Magazine | Very popular magazine that featured many picture. This is how most people saw the world. | |
| 600502791 | The Popular Front | A coalition lead by the American Communist Party; supported Fraklin Roosevelt and The New Deal; mobilized intellectuals towards social critisism. | |
| 600502792 | Anti-Fascist | Had been harsh and relenting critics of American capitalism, but softened their view because Stalin felt that the US would be a needed ally when fighting Hitler. | |
| 600502793 | American Communist Party | run by the Communist International and is bent to overthrow American govt and instigate worker's revolution | |
| 600502794 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | an independant agency of the United States government. It granted over 2 billion dollars to the local and state governments. It was charted under the Herbert Hoover administration. | |
| 600502795 | Farmer's Holiday Association | Unhappy farmers in Iowa endorsed the withholding of farm products (strike) Succeeding in blockading markets but ultimately failed | |
| 600502796 | Bonus Expeditionary Force | thousands of WWI veterans, who insisted on immediate payment of their bonus certificates, they marched on Washington in 1932, violence ensured when President Hoover ordered their ten villages cleared | |
| 600502797 | General Douglas MacArthur | Led troops against Bonus Expeditionary w/unnecessary violence | |
| 600502798 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Democratic president who created the New Deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression | |
| 600502799 | Brain Trust | Group of expert policy advisers who worked with FDR in the 1930s to end the great depression |
