Great Depression

Improves roads, parks, airports; rake leaves, shovel snow

Builds dams and bridges

Work camps for youth, required to send money back home

Provides financial security to those who cannot support themselves

Democrat candidate for President in 1932:

Creates the "Share Our Wealth Program"

Republican candidate for President in 1932:

Provides cheap power, jobs and flood control

Pays subsidies to farmers:

FDR using the radio to explain policies to the American people:

Severe drought that cripples the Great Plains

All of the following were part of President Roosevelt's 3 R's EXCEPT:

____ is the total value of goods and services a nation produces.

Highest tax on imported goods in US History:

The government has the power to regulate the stock market:

The government spending more money than it takes in:

20,000 unemployed WWI veterans camp in Washington DC and demand money

FDR tries to ______ the Supreme Court:

______ is when people feared banks would run out of money.

The unemployment rate during the Depression reaches:

Drives out WWI soldiers from DC:

The government now insures all bank deposits:

Shantytowns made up of scrap metal and cardboard: