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13885539814Economically, Depression meansBusiness failure, High unemployment, and Falling Prices0
13885539815Causes of the Great Depression areProblems in Industry, Problems in agriculture, increased in consumer debt, Uneven income distribution, Poor investment, and Lack of government help1
13885539816Problems in the Industry was a result ofLack of demands for goods so companies laid off workers2
13885539817Problems in the agriculture was a result ofOverproduction by farmers contributed to falling prices.3
13885539827The Date of the Stock CrashOctober 29, 1929. Black Tuesday4
13885539828The effects of the Great Depression were11,000 Banks failed and unemployment rate went up 25%5
13885539830Dust Bowlwas a period of drought that hit the Great Plains6
13885539834Fireside Chatsinformal talks given by FDR over the radio; sat by White House fireplace; gained the confidence of the people7
13885539838Work Progress Administrationa main federal relief agency for the depression, it put relief workers directly on the federal payroll8
13885539841Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII9
13885539842Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)a federal corporation established in 1933 to construct dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley region to generate electricity as well as to prevent floods10
13885539843Social Security Act(FDR) 1935, guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health11
13885539844Father Charles CoughlinA Catholic priest from Michigan who was critical of FDR on his radio show. His radio show morphed into being severly against Jews during WWII and he was eventually kicked off the air, however before his fascist (?) rants, he was wildly popular among those who opposed FDR's New Deal.12

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