Unit 6 - Great Depression & New Deal

The most severe economic downturn in U.S. history (1929-1941):

• Dust Bowl

• Great Depression

• Black Tuesday

• Bank Failure

October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed:

• Bank Holiday

• Black Tuesday

• Bonus Army

• Tariff

Practice of making risky stock investments with borrowed money:

• Buying on Margin

• Overspeculation

• Stock Market

• Deficit Spending

Migrant farmworkers, many from Oklahoma, who fled the Dust Bowl:

• Dust Bowl

• Bonus Army

• Hoovervilles

• Okies

Severe drought and dust storms on the Great Plains during the 1930s:

• Dust Bowl

• Repatriation

• Bank Failure

• Dust Bowl

Name for shantytowns built by the homeless during the Great Depression:

• Great Depression

• Hoovervilles

• Brain Trust

• Fireside Chats

Roosevelt's radio addresses to reassure Americans during the Depression:

• Fireside Chats

• Bank Holiday

• Brain Trust

• Fireside Chats

Roosevelt's first 100 days in office when Congress passed several new laws, also called:

• First Hundred Days

• Emergency relief

• New Deal

• Court Packing

Roosevelt's domestic program to address the Great Depression:

• Brain Trust

• New Deal

• Tariff

• Deficit Spending

Attempt by Roosevelt to add justices to the Supreme Court to support New Deal legislation:

• Court Packing

• Brain Trust

• Monetary Policy

• Deficit Spending