| A | B |
|---|
| relief | aid for the needy |
| on margin | purchasing stock paying only a fraction and borrowing the rest |
| stock exchange | organized system for buying and selling stock |
| default | failed to make loan payments |
| Hoovervilles | shantytowns named after President Hoover |
| pubic works | projects such as highways, parks, and libraries created new jobs |
| Emergency Banking Act | set up a system by which banks would reopen again or be reorganized |
| Hundred Days | productive time period when the Congress passed 15 of FDR's proposals |
| New Deal | FDR's plan to end Great Depression |
| FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insure bank accounts |
| TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority-electricity to rural areas, flood control |
| AAA | Agricultural Adjustment Act-paid farmers not to grow crops helped stablize prices |
| CCC | Civilian Conservation Corps-enployed 2.5 million young men planting trees, working on flood control, in parks, etc |
| Dust Bowl | southern Great Plains suffered environmental diaster in 1930s |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | U.S. President during Great Depression-New Deal Programs |
| Herbert Hoover | U.S. President at beginning of Great Depression-did little to aid suffering |
| Frances Perkins | first women to serve on President's cabinet |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | worked to help improve educational opportunities for African Americans |
| John Steinbeck | author of Great Depression era wrote The Grapes of Wrath |
| Dorothea Lange | recorded faces of the Great Depression in her photographs |
| Father Charles Coughlin | Detroit priest attacked FDR for not dealing firmly with big business, also attacked Jews, bankers and labor unions |
| Huey Long | Louisiana Senator who attacked FDR, wanted more redistribution of the wealth in U.S.,-"Share the Wealth" plan give every American a home and $2,500 |
| John L. Lewis | President of the United Mine Workers, later organized the CIO-Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act | guaranteed workers the right to form unions to bargain collectively with employers |
| Court Packing | FDR's idea to add to the Supreme Court his friends who would uphold the New Deal programs |
| Bonus Army | American veterans that marched to Washington, D.C. to get their promised bonus of money early from the federal government |
| subsidies | grants of money from the government to citizens to make up for lost income |
| migrant worker | people who moved from place to place to harvest fruits and vegtables |
| pension | monthly payment plan for retired people |
| Social Security Act | passed as part of New Deal programs, workers are taxed and money provides income to retired people |
| unemployment insurance | New Deal program that gave payments to people who lost their jobs |
