| A | B |
|---|
| FDR | Became President in 1932 in a landslide election |
| Social Security Act | Provides retirement pensions and help to the unemployed and people with disabilities |
| Hoovervilles | Camps built outside of major cities by the homeless |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed |
| Fireside Chats | President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s radio addresses to the American people |
| Buying on margin | Purchasing stocks on credit |
| Federal Reserve | Failed to prevent the collapse of the banking system |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | An important 1st Lady who played a key role in her husband's administration |
| The Great Depression | Serious, global economic decline that began with the US stock market crash |
| The Dust Bowl | Name given to parts of the Great Plains in the 1930s after a severe draught |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | New Deal organization that protected bank accounts by insuring savings accounts |
| relief | Food, shelter, clothing and money provided to people |
| speculation | Investing of money in a high-risk venture |
| Works Progress Administration | Put American men and women to work constructing & repairing bridges, etc. |
| The New Deal | FDR’s programs for helping the U.S. economy during the Great Depression |
| Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA) | New Deal Program that built dams to provide hydroelectric power & flood control |
| Alphabet Agencies | FDR’s New Deal Plan created 59 agencies known by their initials (CCC,CWA,WPA) |
| Tariff | Tax on imported goods |
| Overspeculation | Process of buying investments with higher risk in order to gain a higher profit |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans went to Washington D.C. to demand early payment of their cash bonus promised to them by the government |
| Civil Conservation Corp (CCC) | Gave jobs to unmarried men,ages 18 to25, planting trees & restoring national parks |
