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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