| A | B |
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| FDR | Elected President in 1932, created New Deal |
| New Deal | Plan to bring US out of Great Depression |
| Hundred Days | The session of Congress during which New Deal legislation was passed |
| Relief | Aid to those in need |
| TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority built dams, controlled floods, created hydroelectricity |
| Hydroelectricity | Water power |
| Banks | Many closed following the Stock Market Crash |
| Social Security Act | Fund for retired workers,disabled workers, families of workers who died. |
| Hitler | Came to power in Germany in 1933 |
| Debt | Owed money |
| Prosperity | Wealth |
| Stocks | Ownership in a company |
| Stock certificate | Document showing ownership in a company |
| Installment plan | Paying for something over a long period of time |
| Capital | Money used to start companies |
| Run(on a bank) | Many people try to withdraw savings at the same time |
| Brokerage House | Place where stocks are bought and sold |
| Buying on margin | Purchasing stock with a small downpayment |
| Hoover | President elected 1928, blamed for Great Depression |
| Republican | Political party which held the presidency during the 1920s |
| Bonus Army | Veterans who demanded promised payment for service in WWI |
| Dividends | Cash payout to stockholders |
| Polio | Virus which paralyzed FDR |
| Hoovervilles | Cardboard boxes/wooden shacks for the homeless during the Great Depression |
| Bank Holiday | 4 day period when FDR ordered banks to be checked for stability |
| Fireside Chats | FDR reassured Americans on this weekly radio broadcast |
| Farmers | Suffered greatly during the Dust Bowl |
| Direct Relief | Money, food, clothes given to Americans in need |
| Charities/Churches | Hoover wanted them to help Americans in need |
| Consumers | Those who buy things |
| Crash | Severe drop in stock prices |
| Democrats | Political party of FDR |
| Supreme Court | This judicial body objected to parts of the New Deal |
| Dust Bowl | Area of US that suffered from dry wind storms in the 1930s |
| Precipitation | rain, snow, sleet, hail |
| Drought | severe shortage of rain |
| Grasslands | Region of natural vegetation on the Great Plains |
| Prairie | synonym for grasslands |
| Walt Disney | Cartoonist of 1930s, created Steamboat WIllie |
| Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers | Famous dance team and movie stars of the 1930s |
| Marx Brothers | Groucho, Chico, Zeppo, Harpo |
| Fantasia | Full length Disney film with symphonic background |
| Shirley Temple | Popular child star of the 1930s |
| Laurel and Hardy | Popular comedy team of the 1930s, used slapstick in their movies |
| Newsreel | Moviegoers saw current events while watching these |
| Okies/Oakies | Dust Bowl migrants |
| Migration | Mass movement westward from the Dust Bowl |
| Black Blizzard | Storm of earth and wind typical during the Dust Bowl |
| Wizard of Oz | Musical film of 1938 starring Judy Garland |
| Jesse Owens | African American track star, won Olympic Gold medal in Berlin |
| World War Two | This is what finally brought the US out of the Great Depression |
| Mickey Mouse | Disney cartoon character,starred in Steamboat Willie |
| Soil COnservation Service | Government program to help Dust bowl farmers |
| Terracing/Contour plowing | New farming techniques to avoid erosion |
| Bumper crop | Unusually large or successful crop |
| Soup kitchen | Relief program, offered food to the hungry |
| Share Our Wealth clubs | 4.5 million members joined to show support for Huey Long's ideas |
| Liberty League | Opposed New Deal as a threat to free enterprise in business |
| Conservation | Young men in the CCC worked to protect the environment |
| Huey Long | Kingfish believed the FDR's New Deal programs didn't go far enough |
| Wagner Act | Protected labor's right to form unions |
| John Steinbeck | Author of Grapes of Wrath about the Dust Bowl farmers |
| Babe Ruth | Famous baseball player of the 1930s |
| Joe Louis | US Heavy weight champion defeated German Max Schmeling in a 1938 rematch |
| Frances Perkins | FDR Secretary of Labor, first woman to serve in Cabinet position |
| Black Cabinet | African American officials who served as advisors to FDR |
