Unit 5 The Great Depression & New Deal

To create as many jobs as possible by creating public buildings

Created to end wage cuts, minimize falling prices and layoffs

Large storm that was formed by topsoil not holding onto the ground in the Great Plain states

Makeshift shanty towns of shacks and tents on public or vacant lots

This was created to regulate trade on the stock market & forced corporations to share information about their stock

When you invest in the top the money will trickle down to the people at the bottom

To help furnish food and clothing to the unemployed, elderly, and sick

Hoover's plan to ask all business and industrial leaders to work together

800 million dollar landmark that created new jobs, located between Arizona and Nevada

The practice of making high risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

Young men worked various jobs like building roads, planting trees, and controlling floods

Investors purchased a stock on credit, it would be given at a high interest rate which brokers could demand payment

The goal with to bring life back into the economy

Created to help farmers and to put an end to overprodution

Provided federal insurance for individuals bank accounts of less than $5,000

Inspected the financial health of all banks, if they could not pay off the debt they would remain closed

Guaranteed the bonus pay in 1945, while the Bonus Army wanted the payment now

Protective tariff that raised prices on imports so that they could not compete

The day the stock market crashed