Great Depression

When a bank is unable to meet its obligations to its depositors because it can’t pay it’s own debts

• New Deal

• Bank Failures

• Direct Relief

• Okies

On October 29, 1929, the stock market collapsed, leading to a banking crisis and ultimately to the Great Depression

• Reform

• Speculation

• Tariffs

• Black Tuesday

A person who buys things or uses services

• New Deal

• Soup Kitchen

• Consumer

• Repatriation

An unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to 6 additional justices to the Supreme Court

• Margin Buying

• Court Packing

• Drought

• Hoovervilles

The act of expelling an individual from a country

• Okies

• Drought

• Overspeculation

• Deportation

Money or food given directly from the government to people who are in need

• Direct Relief

• Fireside Chats

• 2nd New Deal

• Unconstitutional

A long period of time during which no rain falls

• Reform

• Public Works

• Okies

• Drought

An area in the United States that included parts of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas where dry topsoil was blown away by winds during a drought (no rain) in the 1930s

• Social Welfare

• Speculation

• Deportation

• Dust Bowl

An extreme slowdown of economic activity that lasts 3 0r more years

• Economic Depression

• New Deal

• Repatriation

• Soup Kitchen

A government program providing certain groups of the population with social benefits or help

• Separation of Power

• Tariffs

• Speculation

• Entitlement Program