chapter 26 terms

1. region of the southern great plains where due to the technology, the soil would become dry and blow away in a strong windstorm
4. place where shares in corporations are bought and sold through an organized system
6. passed by Congress in 1933, goal was to boast the economy helping business regulate
7. FDR’s wife, acted as her husband's eyes and ears when he got sick
10. skilled workers organized by craft
11. sum paid regularly to a person, usually after retirement
13. Workers toiled on projects that helped the public, including planting trees to reforest areas, building levees for flood control and improving national parks was
15. aimed to organize entire industries
17. President Roosevelt's first few weeks
19. raised the prices of goods purchased from other countries, 1930
21. explores the Civil War
22. helped build dams which controlled floods
23. governor of Louisiana, Roosevelt's biggest competitor, assassinated in 1935
24. act aimed to raise farm prices quickly
25. agreed to pay for public works with federal money, done to make new jobs for unemployed people

2. novel written by John Steinbeck, about family journey from Oakland to California during the Great Depression
3. political philosophy that stresses the glory of the state over an individual, favours dictatorship
5. ordered all banks to close, act passed by Congress, help banks reorganize
8. fail to meet an obligation, especially financial
9. October 24, 1929, Stockholders had been selling shares by millions. On this day 13 million shares were sold
12. shack homes for the homeless during the Great Depression
14. payments by government for a limited period of time to people have lost their jobs
16. coalition of WW1 veterans who united in 1932 to collect their bonus
18. group of advisers hired by Roosevelt, these helped their
20. banned child labour and set a minimum wage 40 cents per hour