Great Depression Vocabulary

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  1. 3. Financial failure caused by a company not being able to pay its debts.
  2. 4. FDR’s plan to end the Great Depression. It contained many new policies, ideas, and agencies created to help the American people during the Depression.
  3. 7. At the start of the Great Depression a drought hits the Midwest lasting 5 years and causing massive crop failures and devastating dust storms. Many Midwesterners are displaced and forced to look for work.
  4. 9. Programs that gave needy people government jobs.
  5. 11. Underlying foundation on which a community on nation depends, such as roads and schools.
  6. 12. A person who travels from place to place working on farms.
  7. 13. Sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire.
  8. 15. The first 100 days of FDR’s presidency. He enacted many of his New Deal programs during this time.
  9. 16. 12 year economic and social disaster that begins in the United States and eventually spreads throughout the World.
  10. 17. A law requiring workers and employers to pay a tax; the money provides a monthly pension for retired people.
  11. 19. President of the United States during the Great Depression and most of World War II. He created the New Deal, which brought America out of the Depression.
  12. 21. Aid for the needy, welfare.
Down
  1. 1. FDR’s second set of programs and reforms to end the Great Depression.
  2. 2. Weekly radio broadcast by FDR that reassured the country during the Great Depression.
  3. 3. October 29, 1929. The day the Stock Market Crashed.
  4. 5. 20,000 World War 1 veterans who were promised $1,000 to be paid by 1945; wanted immediate payment and marched on Washington. The U.S. Army was called in to beak up the protest.
  5. 6. Makeshift towns of homeless people displaced by the Great Depression, named after Herbert Hoover who was president at the beginning of the Great Depression.
  6. 7. When the government spends more money than it collects in taxes.
  7. 8. Payments made by the government for a limited amount of time to a person who has lost their job.
  8. 10. Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use.
  9. 14. Grant money from the government to a person or company for an action intended to help the public.
  10. 18. The idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
  11. 20. A place where shares in corporations are bought and sold through an organized system.