| A | B |
|---|
| Franklin Roosevelt | believed the government must get involved in the economy because it was a time of emergency |
| Herbert Hoover | believed if the government offered relief efforts people would become too dependent on gov't |
| bank failures | resulted from too many people withdrawing their money all at once |
| soup kitchens | private charities set up to give the poor a meal |
| installment buying | buying on credit |
| Dust Bowl | starting in 1932 this is how you could describe the Great Plains in the 1930's |
| relief | Hoover believed that only state & city governments should dole this out |
| Hoovervilles | communities of makeshift shacks |
| New Deal | Roosevelts policies during the Great Depression |
| farmers | the hardest hit during the Depression |
| hobos | unemployed Americans who wandered the country on railroads or by hitchhiking |
| Bonus Army | veterans from WWI that protested in front of the capitol |
| "Share Our Wealth" movement | each American family should be given a plot of land worth $5,000 |
