Great depression & the new deal

What is Speculstion

Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

Term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression

What was black tuesday

October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash

Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

What is the hawley-smoot tariff

Protective tax on imports enacted by Congress in 1930 in an effort to counter the nation's slide into the Great Depression

Term used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s, when the region suffered from drought and dust storms

What are hoovervilles

Term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression

Term used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s, when the region suffered from drought and dust storms

What was the dust bowl

Term used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s, when the region suffered from drought and dust storms

Payment for war damages

Define repartriation

Payment for war damages

Term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression

What is the new deal

Was a series of social liberal programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later

Term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression

What are fireside chats

An informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.

Payment for war damages

What was the federal deposit insurance

A public corporation, established in 1933, that insures, up to a specified amount, all demand deposits of member banks.

An informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.

What is the corporation

A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

A public corporation, established in 1933, that insures, up to a specified amount, all demand deposits of member banks.

What is the civilian conservation corps

Was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal.

Payment for war damages

Define the national recovery administration

The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices.

Was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal.

What is the public works administration

Large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

What is the work progress administration

Was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

Large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

What was the social security act

A law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.

Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

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