This New Deal program put people to work building dams along rivers to provide electricity to rural southern areas
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Who was the author that wrote the novel Gone With the Wind?
Margaret Mitchell
Places where people lived in tents and shacks because they had lost everything in the Great Depression.
Shantytowns or "Hoovervilles"
Who was elected US President after Hoover that introduced government programs to help with the Depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Which New Deal program provided monthly payments to the elderly and people with disabilities?
Social Security
The money that is left over after all costs of business have been paid
profit
This New Deal program put people to work building roads and bridges and highways.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Where did people with no money get food during the Great Depression?
soup kitchens
Who was the African American big band leader and composer in the 1930s?
Duke Ellington
What was the name given to the Great Plains region that suffered from little rain and strong winds in the 1930s
the Dust Bowl
Without a job
unemployed
Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed?
Herbert Hoover
Money that is owed
debt
Also known as Black Tuesday, this was one of the events that led to the Great Depression
Stock Market Crash
The worst economic hardship of all time which began in 1920 and continued until the start of WWII
The Great Depression
The New Deal had three goals; _________ , recover, and reform.
Relief
A downturn in the economy
recession
Did the New Deal bring the Great Depression to an end?
No
The money you get paid from your job
wage
President Roosevelt's plan to help the nation out of the Great Depression was called _______
The New Deal
Who was the African American track star that won lots of gold medals at the Olympics in Germany in the 1930s?
Jesse Owens
What finally brought the US out of the Great Depression?
the start of World War 2
A really long lasting and severe recession
depression
Buying something by agreeing to pay for it later
credit
A person who gives money to a business hoping to make a profit
investor
When everyone goes to withdraw their money from the bank at the same time, causing the bank to fail.
Bank Run
The place where stocks are bought and sold
stock market
A share of ownership in a company
stock
The CCC was part of FDR's New Deal to get America back to work. What type of work did they do?
Plant trees in national parks
Which US President said "The economy will get better on it's own. It will just take time.
Herbert Hoover
What something is worth
value