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VocabularyHoover andThe Crash
Roosevelt And the New Deal
Life in the Great Depression Programs
What is bankruptcy?
Financial failure caused by the
inability to pay ones debt
What is a bonus?
Extra payment
What is a sit-down strike?
Workers stay in the factory but stop production
What is a payroll tax?
A tax that removes money
directly from workers
paychecks.
What is overproduction?
When the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demand
What the name of the day that the
Stock Market crashed?
“Black Tuesday”
What was a major cause
of the depression?
Overproduction
What is a Hooverville?
Communities of run down
shacks
Give two things that families in
crisis did.
1. Fathers left their homes2. People deserted their families3. Wedding plans were put off
4. Less children5. Many children suffered lifelong
health problems from lack of food and dental care
6. Many children only attended school until they were 14
What did the Bonus Army
do?
Marched on Washington to get
the money that was
owed to them
What happened to FDR when he was younger?
He got polio and became
paralized
What was the name of the program that FDR set up?
The New Deal
What was the “Bank Holiday?”
When FDR closed the banks to try
to stop bank failures
What were the three main
goals of FDR’s New Deal?
Relief, Recovery and Reform
What was it called when FDR tried to
put more judges on the
Supreme Court?
Court Packing
What was the unemployment
percentage during the Great
Depression?
25% unemployment
What two groups of people had a hard time during the Depression?
Females and African Americans
What did Eleanor
Roosevelt do during FDR’s presidency?
Criss-crossed the country serving as
FDR’s eyes and ears
What were the five years of bad weather in the west called?
The Dust Bowl
Who wrote The Grapes of
Wrath?
John Steinbeck
What is the Public Works
Administration?
Employed middle-aged skilled workers to work on public projects, cost
$4 billion
What did the Agricultural
Adjustment Act do?
Paid farmers not to farm
What did the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation do?
Insured deposits in banks in order to
restore public confidence in banks
What is the Social Security Act?
Provided financial assistance to: elderly,
handicapped, delinquent, unemployed; paid for by employee and employer
payroll contributions
What did the Tennessee
Valley Authority do?
A government program that ran a series of dams built on the Tennessee