Great Depression and New Deal Vocabulary

2. Provided a safety net for workers with unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and insurance for families of those who died early; paid for by employees and employers.
5. An attempt to stabilize the banking system.
7. insured bank deposits to restore people's confidence in the nation's banks.
8. A legislative initiative to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
9. Radio addresses to the American people.
11. A law that was passed by the United States Congress to facilitate regulation of electric utilities.
12. Prevents fraud on stock market.
14. Created jobs hiring artists, writers, and musicians to paint murals, produce plays, and create other artworks.
15. Promised to put Americans back to work.
17. Paper money to expand money supply.

1. No president can be elected more than twice.
3. Government owned dams along the Tennessee River controlled floods and produced electricity.
4. The use of gold as a form of currency.
6. Even during a national crisis, the President could not have more power than the Constitution allows.
10. A collection of shacks at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
13. Establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards
16. Was notably marked for the stock market crash of 1929.
18. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops.