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The Great Depression

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This happened on October 29, 1929

Stock Market Crash

Long periods of this in the Great Plains cause

severe soil erosion

drought

The farming area in the Midwestern U.S. that

suffered severe drought and farming conditions

Dust Bowl

Election of this President in 1932 became his 1st of

4 Presidential terms

Franklin D. Roosevelt

This led America out of The Great Depression

America preparing for WWII

Pianist, composer, and bandleader in the 1930s

“swing era.”

Duke Ellington

African American track star that won the

Olympics in Germany in 1936

Jesse Owens

President that promised “a New Deal for the American people.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Americans blamed this President for causing The

Great Depression.

Herbert Hoover

Author of Gone With the Wind.

Margaret Mitchell

In regards to money, people did this in

the 1920s.People spent money they

didn’t have and went into debt.

This happened to farmers as an immediate result of

the dust bowl

lost farms and had to move west

This happened to people after the stock market crash

People became unemployed and homeless.

People lined up here for a cup of soup and piece of

bread.

soup kitchen or bread line

This program was put into place to help give Americans jobs and keep the economy

going.

The New Deal

Projects for this agency involved soil

conservation & tree planting

CCC

This agency built public highways & buildings

WPA

This agency build dams & generated electricity to a

7 state region

TVA

The CCC, WPA, and TVA were part of this program

The New Deal

What does the acronym WPA stand for?

Works Progress Administration

This happened to 1in 4 Americans during The

Great Depression

unemployment

The New Deal did this for the people

gave them jobs

This happens when people spend money

The economy becomes stable.

This invention allowed FDR to talk to the

American people in his “Fireside Chats.”

radio

The government established this plan so that Americans would begin to trust banks

& deposit money there once again.

FDIC