| A | B |
|---|
| Hoovervilles | Shacks for homeless people |
| buying on margin | buying stocks on credit |
| Herbert Hoover | The president that believed that the Depression would correct itself. |
| Black Tuesday | Oct. 29, 1929. When the stock market creashed |
| Great Depression | A time of economic depression that caused much suffering. |
| First effect of the Great Depression | The failure of the banks |
| Bonus Army | 12,000 WWI veterans poured into Washington, D.C. to protest not getting paid. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President whose New Deal programs helped America out of the depression |
| New Deal | FDR's program that increased government control over the economy |
| deficit spending | Used to stimulate the economy during the Great Depression |
| Brain Trust | FDR's talented advisor's who helped him shape the New Deal. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | The "eyes and ears" of the president |
| Huey Long | Senator who protested the New Deal programs. |
| "Court packing" | FDR wanted to minimize the Supreme Court's opposition to his New Deal Programs. |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Book that told about the migrant workers that left Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era. |
