The Great Depression Flashcards
Temporary towns that sprang up in cities across the US
Shanty towns
Buying stock with hopes of reward and no thought of risk
Speculation
A man walking the city in search of a job with little to no possessions
Hoboes
The disaster that struck the Midwest farmers and created black blizzards
The dust bowl
The economic philosophy of Herbert Hoover
Laissez-faire
The day that started the great depression
Black Tuesday
Lines of people waiting for free food
Breadlines
The family role that would be focused on taking care of the children and working
Mother
The record-breaking storms that destroyed businesses in the north east
The great flood
The major government project Hoover supported to provide jobs and power
Hoover dam
Thousands of being stuck closed when everyone withdrew money
Bank runs
A physical condition in which you lack energy and are in pain because of lack of food
Malnutrition
The title of the famous photograph of a P picker displaced to California
Migrant mother
The name of the man who wrote the song about Okies traveling along route 66
Woody Guthrie
The term for the group of World War I veterans who pressured Hoover to pay them in 1932
The bonus army
What the Federal Reserve did that cause less money to be in circulation
Raised discount rates
The unemployment rate was never lower than this number
20%
The problems teenagers faced during the Great Depression
Lack of education, malnutrition, college dropouts, and ran away
The state that thousands of Americans such as our migrant mother settled in during the 1930s
California
The term for the government spending more money than they make in revenue
Deficit spending
The terrace that raised prices on imported goods
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Losing your home because you can’t afford to pay the mortgage
Foreclosure
The state and local program that provided food and money to the poor
Public assistance
The collection of laws and policies that FDR used to expand the role of government
The new deal
FDR is liberal or conservative
Liberal
Hoover is liberal or conservative
Conservative
Drought
Lack of rain for Summers
Desertification
Land becomes increasingly desert-like
Depopulation
- 30,000 people left the region
- Black blizzards
Okies (route 66)
New California residents who left home along route 66 after the dust bowl
Great flood of 1936
Flood in the north east that resulted in a series of record-breaking storms
