THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Nickname for FDR’s intellectual advisors

Act that guaranteed labor’s right to organize unions and bargain for better wages and working conditions

Dorothea Lange’s most famous photograph from the Great Depression

New Deal plan that employed young men in the conservation effort

New Deal agency created to insure bank savings deposits; Insures accounts up to $100,000

New Deal program that employed artists and writers

Collections of makeshift shelters built by homeless people; Sometimes referred to as Hoovervilles

Three R’s of FDR

Nickname given to October 29, 1929; Day of Stock Market Crash

Purchasing stock with borrowed money

New Deal program that provided part-time jobs to people between the ages of 16 and 25

Built dams and power stations to provided hydroelectric power and flood control to the Rural South

WWI veterans who march on Washington, D.C. demanding pensions

Relief program of the 1930s by Huey Long

Success comes through individual effort and private enterprise; Believed by Hoover during the Great Depression

President at the beginning of the Great Depression

Nickname for FDR’s civil rights advisors

Term for pockets turned out during the Great Depression

New Deal plan that reduced farmers’ output and increased crop prices

Repealed prohibition

Great Plains was called this after a severe drought struck the region in 1930s

FDR’s policy concerning better relations with Latin America

Appointed by FDR as the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the federal government

Folk singer of the Dust Bowl

FDR’s plan to stop massive withdrawals during the Great Depression

Provides retirement benefits for the elderly

Nickname for FDR’s New Deal Programs

Steinbeck’s 1939 masterpiece about the Dust Bowl

Main advisor of FDR

Spell out WPA

Rate of unemployment during the Great Depression

Main medium during the Great Depression

Economic downturn began by the Stock Market Crash