| A | B |
|---|
| Herbert Hoover | President |
| Dow Jones Industrial Average | Measures the stock market's health |
| Buying on Margin | Ignoring risk looking for large profit. |
| Overspeculation | Borrowing money to by stocks. |
| Bullmarket | A period of rising stock prices. |
| Bear Market | Stock prices are falling. |
| Black Thursday | Market plunged, people paniced |
| Black Tuesday | Stock market crashed |
| Cause & Effect of Crash | Farmers, Demand falls, overproduction, tariffs |
| Great Depression 1929-1940 | Economy plummeted, high unemployment |
| Hooverville | Shantytowns, shacks and poor people |
| Dust Bowl | Severe drought and overfarming land |
| Okies | Farmers moving west due to dust bowl. |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans marched on D.C. wanted their bonuses. |
| Boulder Dam | Colorado river now called Hoover Dam |
| Hoover Dam | Built as part of public works program during depression |
| HOBO | Rode the railroads, wanders |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act | Protected us against foreign competition, but they didn't buy from us either. |
| Fireside Chats | FDR talking to people on the radio. |
| Black Cabinet | Minority advisors to the president. |
| Brain Trust | Advisors to the President. |
| Glass Stegall Act | Established FDIC |
| FDIC | Insures deposits placed in banks. |
| 21st Amendment | Ended prohibition |
| Deficit Spending | Gov. spending money we don't have. |
| Wagner Act | Est'b. collective bargaining for labor unions. |
| National Labor Relations Board | Est'b. to oversee and defind unfair labor practices |
| Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | Philip Randolph fought against discrimination. |
| 20th Amendment | V.P. would become Pres. Inauguration in January. |
| Mary Bethune | Black educator appt'd. to Nat'l Youth Adm. |
| Carl Weiss | Assassinated Huey Long |
| Francis Perkins | 1st Woman Cabinet member |
| Fr. Charles Coughlin | Priest Anti New Deal and Anti Jews |
| Dr. Francis Townsend | Felt New Deal didn't help poor or elderly enough |
| Huey Long | Louisiana governor wanted to be Pres. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Spoke up for minorities, and women |
| Federal Emergency Relief Act | Money to states to help unemployment. |
| National Industrial Recovery Act | Gave people jobs to build schools, bldgs. |
| Works Progress Administration | Jobs to build airports, supports the arts |
| Social Security Act | Gave money to elderly and dependent children |
| Francis Perkins | 1st woman cabinet member wrote Social Security Act |
| Civil Works Administration | Provided jobs. |
| Civilian Conservation Corp. | Gave jobs to develop parks, plant trees, etc. |
| National Labor Relation Board | Defined unfair labor practices |
| Emergency Banking Act | Closed banks to stop the run on them. |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. | Est'b. by Glass Steagall Act to insure deposits. |
| Securitites & Exchange Commission | Regulated the Stock Market |
| Home Owners Loan Corp. | Low interest loans to help homeowners and farmers |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | Adjust crops to drive up demand. |
| Soup Kitchen | Charity to feed the poor. |
