The Great Depression

Question 1

Roaring 20s

Answer 1

nickname for the booming economy of the U.S. during the 1920s

Question 2

Buying On Margin

Answer 2

get money from the bank to invest on stocks

Question 3

Stock Market Crash

Answer 3

the market crashed causing billions of dollars lost and wiping out investors

Question 4

Bank Runs

Answer 4

a wave of banking panics of people withdrawing their money from the bank

Question 5

Hoovervilles

Answer 5

shantytowns where homeless people built shacks out of anything

Question 6

Bonus Army

Answer 6

WW1 veterans who marched to Washington demanding their bonus pay

Question 7

New Deal

Answer 7

series of laws by FDR to fix the depression

Question 8

First Hundred Days

Answer 8

the first one hundred days after FDR took presidency

Question 9

Fireside Chats

Answer 9

a series of 30 radio addresses given by FDR

Question 10

Social Security Act

Answer 10

signed by FDR, created SS & federal safety

Question 11

AAA

Answer 11

an act that paid farmers to not plant crops and kill their livestock

Question 12

TVA

Answer 12

a program that provided jobs & electricity to the Tennessee River Valley

Question 13

WPA

Answer 13

hired 8 million people to build public buildings, roads, etc.

Question 14

CCC

Answer 14

gave young men jobs by working on environmental projects

Question 15

Dust Bowl

Answer 15

Soiled that turned into dust and would kill crops.