The Great Depression and the New Deal

The New Deal program helped prevent flooding

Famous baseball player known for his powerful hitting.

CCC, TVA, and WPA were all a part of 

This marked the start of the Great Depression

On October 29, 1929 stock prices reached an all-time low; this day became known as

Great Plain droughts led to winds carrying topsoil and burying homes in the 

New Deal programs that created jobs for unemployed people.

F. D. Roosevelt

U.S. President that created the New Deal.

Soup kitchens

Shantytowns of the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression were sometimes called

Hoovervilles

Margaret Mitchell 

Herbert Hoover

These places gave free food to the poor 

The ________ was the worst economic period in the history of the United States. 

Famous musician that recorded jazz music and appeared in movies.

Long period of no rain, 1930's, high winds carrying dry dirt

Author of Gone with the Wind

The Great Depression was

Duke Ellington was remembered for his accomplishments in

Roosevelt's plan to get people back to work was called

US President often blamed for failing to act to fight the depression.

Won four gold medals in track in the 1936 Olympics