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VocabularyHoover andThe Crash

Roosevelt And the New Deal

Life in the Great Depression Programs

What is bankruptcy?

Financial failure caused by the

inability to pay ones debt

What is a bonus?

Extra payment

What is a sit-down strike?

Workers stay in the factory but stop production

What is a payroll tax?

A tax that removes money

directly from workers

paychecks.

What is overproduction?

When the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demand

What the name of the day that the

Stock Market crashed?

“Black Tuesday”

What was a major cause

of the depression?

Overproduction

What is a Hooverville?

Communities of run down

shacks

Give two things that families in

crisis did.

1. Fathers left their homes2. People deserted their families3. Wedding plans were put off

4. Less children5. Many children suffered lifelong

health problems from lack of food and dental care

6. Many children only attended school until they were 14

What did the Bonus Army

do?

Marched on Washington to get

the money that was

owed to them

What happened to FDR when he was younger?

He got polio and became

paralized

What was the name of the program that FDR set up?

The New Deal

What was the “Bank Holiday?”

When FDR closed the banks to try

to stop bank failures

What were the three main

goals of FDR’s New Deal?

Relief, Recovery and Reform

What was it called when FDR tried to

put more judges on the

Supreme Court?

Court Packing

What was the unemployment

percentage during the Great

Depression?

25% unemployment

What two groups of people had a hard time during the Depression?

Females and African Americans

What did Eleanor

Roosevelt do during FDR’s presidency?

Criss-crossed the country serving as

FDR’s eyes and ears

What were the five years of bad weather in the west called?

The Dust Bowl

Who wrote The Grapes of

Wrath?

John Steinbeck

What is the Public Works

Administration?

Employed middle-aged skilled workers to work on public projects, cost

$4 billion

What did the Agricultural

Adjustment Act do?

Paid farmers not to farm

What did the Federal Deposit

Insurance Corporation do?

Insured deposits in banks in order to

restore public confidence in banks

What is the Social Security Act?

Provided financial assistance to: elderly,

handicapped, delinquent, unemployed; paid for by employee and employer

payroll contributions

What did the Tennessee

Valley Authority do?

A government program that ran a series of dams built on the Tennessee

River