The Great Depression Flashcards
1
Q
What was the Great Depression?
A
time when the stock market crashed
2
Q
What is the stock market
A
when you invest money in a company
3
Q
Why did people invest in the stock market
A
hoped the price of shares in companies would go up
4
Q
What was F.D.R plan
A
help the nation recover from the Depression
5
Q
What were the soup kitchens
A
place where people with little money went to eat, and were run by charities
6
Q
What was the dust bowl
A
was a drought and a big storms of dust
