Great depression

Question 1

The Great Depression

Answer 1

The worst period of economic decline in the United States history, beginning in 1929

Question 2

Stock Market

Answer 2

an exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers and where company stocks are bought and sold.

Question 3

Black Tuesday

Answer 3

October 29th, 1929

Day the stock market crashed, signaling the start of the Great Depression

Question 4

Hoovervilles

Answer 4

group of shacks in which homeless lived during the Great Depression

Question 5

Dust Bowl

Answer 5

The region in the central Great Plains that was hit by a severe drought

Question 6

New Deal

Answer 6

series of new laws and programs introduced by President Roosevelt during the depression to create jobs and improve the economy. things like P.W.A. and W.P.A.

Question 7

bankrupt (p.748)

Answer 7

unable to pay debts

Question 8

relief program (p.750)

Answer 8

a government program to help the needy

Question 9

Recovery

Answer 9

Recovery of the economy. Creating jobs and helping businesses grow by restarting the flow of consumer demand

Question 10

Reform

Answer 10

Reform of the financial system to ease the economic crisis and introducing permanent programs to avoid another depression and insuring against future economic disasters