Great Depression Review

Vocab: an involvement in risky business acts in an effort to make a quick profit.

What New Deal program offered aid to the retired, unemployed, disabled & disadvantaged?

______ were farmers of the Dust Bowl who were forced to travel west in search of jobs.

What president promised a New Deal for the American people?

Name given to the day the stock market crashed on Oct. 29th, 1929:

Vocab: a government's spending of more money than it receives in revenue.

What was the name of FDR's plan to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression?

Who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who clashed with FDR on most New Deal measures?

What was used as a migration path for Okies heading west seeking jobs?

Vocab: The giving of money or food by the government directly to needy people.

Who was President on Black Tuesday when the stock market crashed?

Who was the first woman to serve as a cabinet member (US Secretary of Labor)?

What was the name of the shanty-towns set up by the nation's homeless?

What effort to protect American business backfired when other nations refused to buy our goods?

What New Deal program regulated the stock market?

What are the 3 Rs of FDR's New Deal?

FDR declared this in March of 1933 to stop people from withdrawing their money from banks.

Herbert Hoover believed that most of the help for the needy should come from:____.

Name given to a man or boy who rode the rails as he searched for work:

What New Deal Program aided farmers and regulated crop production?