8th grade ch 23- the great depression Flashcards
signs of weakness in the 20s (3)
- older industries (mining, railroads, clothing manufacturing) were in decline
- agriculture was suffering
- lots of margin buyers (gambling) in stocks
stock market peak and decline5
- peak: sept. 1929
- decline: oct 3, 1929
- brokers who bought on money asked for their loans
- investors who couldn’t pay loans had to sell stocks (caused prices to drop more)
- oct 29, 1929: black tuesday: stock market crumbled (marked start of great depression)
overproduction2
- situation in which the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demand
- affected housing, automobiles, and goods
crisis in banking2
- banks that loaned farmers money went out of business when farms failed
- many people rushed to bank to withdraw their savings after market crashed
depression cycle 5
- ) stock market crashed (people lose money)
- ) people unable to buy what factories are producing, factory workers lose their jobs
- ) unemployed have less money to buy goods
- ) declining sales lead to more closings and layoffs
- ) go back to #2
bankruptcy
financial failure caused by a company’s inability to pay its debts
influence to world3
- after ww1, european nations owed US lots of money
- depression slowed down international trade, which caused countries to be unable to pay loans
- investors cut back on loans to europe, causing europe to begin a depression
default
fail to repay their loans
show of poverty4
- soup kitchens
- sell apples or pencils
- hop freight trains to move (hobos)
- homeless communities: hoovervilles
impact on families4
- fathers had to leave or abandon families to find work
- fewer people got married, fewer people had babies
- children had more health problems
- most children stopped attending school
government aid4
- hoover’s advisers thought to do nothing, hoover disagreed
- hoover told states to make public projects and soup kitchens to help the jobless
- formed the reconstruction finance corporation to fund businesses like banks, insurance com, and railroads
- situation continued to worsen
bonus
extra payment
bonus army3
- veterans of ww1 who marched to washington to demand their payment of 1000 for fighting in ww1
- government used violence to clear them out, killing and injuring the people
- americans were outraged by this incident
franklin d roosevelt2
- democrat, ran against hoover in 1932
- pledged “a new deal” for the americans
bank holiday4
- first day in office, fdr declared a bank holiday to halt the nationwide bank failures
- proposed an emergency banking relief act, which provided more careful government regulation of banks
- delivered the first fireside chat (radio talk) that encouraged people to go put their money back in the banks
- the next day, the banks reopened and people redeposited their savings
goals of the new deal3
- relief for the jobless
- economic recovery
- reforms to prevent future depressions
federal emergency relief administration
granted funds to states so they could reopen shuttered relief industries
programs to provide jobs2
- civilian conservation corps (ccc): hired city dwellers to work in american’s national wilderness
- works progress administration (wpa): put people to work building or repairing public buildings like schools or post offices
national recovery administration2
- kept prices stable while boosting employment and buying power
- succeeded in raising prices but failed to improve the economy
public works administration
-granted money to build public works projects like tunnels and dams
tennessee valley authority
-built giant dams along the tennessee river to control flooding, provide electricity, and increase jobs