Great Depression in Washington Vocab

An economic concept that states that the price of a good rises and falls depending on how many people want it (demand) and depending on how much of the good is available (supply)

• Means of production and distribution

• Supply & Demand

• Great depression

• Economy

A system for buying and selling shares of companies

• New Deal program

• Capitalism

• Economy

• Stock Market

The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

• The Great Depression

• Reformation era

• populist era

• The housing market recession

Depression era homeless encampments, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress.

• Poor man villages

• Seattle

• Hooverville's

• Communes

FDR's federal relief programs that tried to help the economy during the Great Depression

• Federal Relief Act of 1932

• Grand Coulee Dam

• New Deal Program

• Bonds

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

• John F Kennedy

The largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects

• Columbia Basin Project

• Works Project Administration (WPA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Grand Coulee Dam

New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects.

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Public Works Administration

• Columbia Basin Project

• Hooverville's

New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs constructing public buildings and other construction projects.

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Public Building Acts of America

• Public Works Administration (PWA)

• None of the above

A dam on the Columbia River in the state of Washington and was built during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal program.

• Elwha Dam

• Hoover Dam

• Grand Coulee Dam

• Hooverville's