Unit 4 Vocab 2

3. Places where free food was given to people in need.
6. The day the stock market crashed, leading to the Great Depression.
7. Radio talks by FDR to explain his ideas and calm Americans during the Depression.
9. When the government spends more money than it earns to boost the economy.
10. A period of severe drought and dust storms that ruined farms on the Great Plains.
11. A severe economic crisis with widespread unemployment and poverty.
13. A program that protects people's bank deposits to prevent losses.
14. President during the start of the Great Depression, criticized for not doing enough to help.
15. A program that provides money to retired people and those unable to work.
17. A program that provided jobs building public projects like schools and roads.
18. Buying stocks hoping their price will rise quickly to sell for a profit.

1. Makeshift neighborhoods where homeless people lived during the Great Depression.
2. A program that gave young men jobs improving parks, forests, and roads.
4. President who created programs to help America recover from the Great Depression.
5. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover, offering hope for change.
8. Nickname for shantytowns, blaming President Hoover for the crisis.
10. FDR’s programs to provide jobs, fix the economy, and support struggling Americans.
12. A program that regulates the stock market to prevent fraud.
16. A program to help farmers by reducing crop supply to raise prices.