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| Herbert Hoover | Was blamed for not helping the American people when the Great Depression hit |
| Fireside Chats | When FDR went on the radio to talk about success stories and programs to help people |
| Buying on Margin | Purchasing stock with a 10% down payment |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. | Was designed to protect all money put into backs, making them safer |
| Deficit Spending | Borrowing money or going into debt to pay for government programs |
| New Deal | The name given to FDR's entire plan to solve the problems of the Great Depression |
| Franklin Roosevelt | The person who was elected in hopes that he would be able to help the country recover from economic collapse |
| Civilian Conservation Corp | Hired young men to plant trees, build dams, and build parks |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | Built 40 dams over 7 states to control flooding and generate hydroelectric power |
| Second New Deal | This set of programs was passed in 1935 in order to further help the problems of the Great Depression |
| Social Security Act | Provided workers with unemployment insurance and retirement benefits |
| Speculation | The buying and selling of stock in the hope of making a quick profit |
| Bonus Army | World War I veterans who marched on Washington, D.C. to ask Congress for money promised to them were called this |
| Hundred Days | The first wave of FDR's programs to fix the nation's problems was nicknamed this |
| Sit-down Strike | A form of protest where instead of walking off their jobs, workers refused to work |
| Wagner Act | Protected worker's rights to form unions and created a board to hear labor disputes |
| Okies | What some of the people who moved west to California to escape the drought in the Great Plains were called |
| Black Tuesday | The day the stock market crashed and the nations economy collapsed |
| Dust Bowl | A 150,000 square mile area of the Great Plains that was hit by a severe drought was called this |
| Brain Trust | A group of economists and college professors hired by President Roosevelt to find solutions to the Great Depression |
