| A | B |
|---|
| overproduction | making more goods than can be sold |
| buying on margin | buying stocks with borrowed money |
| Herbert Hoover | President when the Great Depression began |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President who led the U.S out of the Great Depression |
| depression | high unemployment, little business activity |
| New Deal | Roosevelt's plan to end the depression |
| Dust Bowl | an area of the midwest hurt by drought and high winds |
| World War II | finally ended the Great Depression |
| CCC | gave young men work on conservation projects |
| WPA | put people back to work building schools, courthouses, public buildings, and roads |
| FDIC | guarantees that the money people deposit in a bank will be safe |
| SEC | oversees and regulates the stock market |
| Social Security | government effort to take care of Americans who cannot take care of themselves |
