Vocabulary for the Great Depression & the New Deal
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Stock Market Crash of 1929 | it was a factor that began the Great Depression; it began October 24 and continued until October 29, 1929, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed
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| stock | a share of ownership of a company
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | became president in 1932 defeating Herbert Hoover; he felt that the government should help the citizens when they were in need, so he came up with many new ways to help the citizens
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| Great Depression | a long and severe decline in the economy that existed from 1929 until the early 1940s.
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| soup kitchens | the government couldn’t help so churches and other groups opened kitchens that served soup (cheap to make and could make a lot of it at a time) to help people that didn’t have jobs, so they didn’t have food to eat
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| Dust Bowl | during the 1930s, the name of an area in the Great Plains where drought and damaging farm practices had turned soil into dust
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| Herbert Hoover | president during the 1929 stock market crash and felt that the government should not get involved
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| New Deal | programs that President Franklin Roosevelt and his administration set up to end the Great Depression
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| drought | a long period of little or no rainfall
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| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | jobs for young American men that helped in preserving the nation’s national resources
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA) | put unemployed people to work building public buildings, roads, bridges and airports; they also painted murals and created sculptures for the public buildings
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | built dams to control floods in the Tennessee River Valley and generate electricity for homes and farms in the region; it still provides power for the region today
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