Great Depression Ch 25 Short List
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| 381310582 | banking | Which industry suffered a severe crisis, which FDR tried to end by passing the FDIC? | |
| 381310583 | Black Tuesday | Stock market crash, immediate cause of the great depression (2 words) | |
| 381310584 | Dust Bowl | Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages. (2 words) | |
| 381310585 | Dust Bowl | caused by overproduction, bad farm techniques, and droughts (2 words) | |
| 381310586 | Eleanor | First name of First Lady (president's wife) who worked hard to bring equality for all Americans during the Great Depression and World War II | |
| 381310587 | farmers | Which group was suffering economically even before the Great Depression began? | |
| 381310588 | FDIC | This government program restored people's faith in the bank by insuring deposits up to $100,000 (use initials only) | |
| 381310589 | fireside chat | informal radio broadcast in which FDR explained issues and New Deal programs to average Americans | |
| 381310590 | Franklin | First name of the 32nd 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 WWII | |
| 381310591 | Great Depression | the severe economic decline that began in 1929 and lasted for more than a decade (2 words) | |
| 381310592 | Great Plains | In what part of the country was the Dust Bowl? (2 words) | |
| 381310593 | New Deal | FDR's social service programs that helped the poor and raised the national debt (2 words) | |
| 381310594 | radio and movies | During the Depression, how did Americans distract themselves from their worries? (3 words) | |
| 381310595 | relief | aid for the needy; welfare | |
| 381310596 | Roosevelt | Last name of the 32nd president; during the Great Depression he created the "New Deal" to set up social programs to help struggling Americans | |
| 381310597 | Social Security Act | 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 health (3 words) | |
| 381310598 | Steinbeck | American novelist who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath". (1939) A story of Dustbowl victims who travel to California to look for a better life. | |
| 381310599 | stock market | the place where stocks are bought and sold (2 words) | |
| 381360684 | Savings | Many Americans lost their jobs, homes and _______ | |
| 381360685 | Consumer Goods | Factories for making weapons during WW1 were changed to make ________ _____. | |
| 381360686 | Blues | Movies, Jazz and _____ became popular during this time. | |
| 381360687 | Recession | A time in which the economy shrinks is called a _________ | |
| 381360688 | 1/4 | In 1932, ___ (fraction) of people in America were out of work. | |
| 381360689 | Bread Lines | Government workers would give food to people who needed it in _____ _____ | |
| 381360690 | California | Many farmers moved to __________ to escape the dust bowl, but didn't find much better conditions there. | |
| 381360691 | Jazz | Louis Armstrong and Duke Elliot were popular ____ artists. | |
| 381360692 | Children | Some ________ were forced to drop out of school to work to support their family. | |
| 381360693 | Hoboes | Young men who would camp on trains because they didn't have money or a home were called ______ |