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1930's
Great Depression Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When did the stock market crash | October 1929 "Black Tuesday" |
| What are Hoovervilles | Shanty towns were homeless people lived |
| What was the nickname for the 1930's | The Great Depression |
| What was the New Deal | Series of laws,programs and goverment agencies put intact to help the country with the Great Depression |
| Causes Of The Great Depression | Over spending, Stock Market Crash, Over Borrowing, Econmic weakness, uneployment, failed banks and buiseness, |
| Why did the Stock Market Crash | Buying stocks on credit Factories over producing sudden sell of stocks |
| Uneployment Cycle | Business fails>Workers lose jobs>No money to make purchases>decrease in sales |
| Banks Fail | People lost hope in the banking system and withdrew their money people lost what little money they had |
| Life | People lost their and homes homeless went to live in hoovervilles food lines from goverment |
| President Hoover | His Philsophy- We'll make it He did NOTHING poor looked to him for help but none was coming |
| Hoovervilles | grouping of tents and shacks in a vacant lot reffered to as hoover villes because of Hoovers lack of help |
| Hoboes | young men and women rode the rails looking for food jobs and money |
| The dust bowl | A period of time when severe dust storms that cause major damage to the plains crops turned to dust= No food/No money homes buried animals died fields blown away many sickenesses due to dust |
| Presidents | Hoover in the BEGINNING Roosevelt IN the END became president in 1933 was president for 16 years |
| The New Deal | Relief- programs set out to assist with feeding and housing the poorest Americans Recovery-was to put money back on the system so they gave consumers spending money Reform- to change the system and prevent the things that the Great Depression |
| Civilain Conservation Corps (CCC) Relief | program that gave young men jobs building roads,parks and planting trees |
| Federal Deposit insurance coropartion (FDIC) Reform | A reform program to prevent future hardships helped make money safe in banks |
| Social Security Act Reform | Helped the diabled and elderly so they would have some income (money) |
| Welfare Relief/Recovery | gives food and money to people who can't work ( NOT SUPPOSED TO STAY AROUND) |
| Results of the New Deal | Didn't get U.S out of depression but built the stepping stones Role of federal goverment greatly increased Social Secruity Act and FDIC are still used TODAY |
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