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| Hoovervilles | describes the makeshift shantytowns where many unemployed and homeless lived during the Great Depression |
| Federal Reserve | system controlled the banks of their ability to loan money and reduced the supply of money. |
| Woody Guthrie | Country Music artist during the 1930's that sang about he hardships of farmers. |
| Court Packing Plans | FDR's proposal to allow the president to appoint an additional Justice for every member of the Supreme Court over 70. |
| Stock Market Crash | Speculation and Buying on Margin caused this to crash in 1929 causing a chain reaction in the economy. |
| Banks | By 1933 many of these closed due to the increase of people withdrawing their money. This crisis was one of the first to be addressed by FDR |
| Dust Bowl | This was the result of severe drought conditions and led to a mass exodus of farmers from the plains. |
| New Deal | Program was created by FDR and consisted of Relief, Recovery and Reform. It focused on the Banking Crisis, unemployment and restoring the economy. |
| Hundred Days | This is the term referring to the initial part of FDR's presidency when he pushed through many of is programs including the Bank Holiday. |
| Great Plains | region affected by the Dust Bowl. Many left and headed to California in search of employment. |
| Social Security | This program was part of the New Deal creating a pension for the retired, disabled and unemployed |
| Okies | This is the term used to refer to the population that set out for California from the Great Plains |
| Hawley Smoot | Tariff passed in 1930 was created to protect American business from foreign competition |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | Created by FDR to oversee and protect bank deposits |
| Securities and Exchange | Oversees the day to day operations in the stock market and prevent fraud. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Was a First Lady and worked for social reform, supported youth employment, helped the poor and addressed the needs of women in her book It's Up to Women |
| John Steinbeck | Author of the Grapes of Wrath, a story of the migration during the Great Depression |
| Office of War Administration | created to encourage Americans to work for the war effort, photograph the war to use as propaganda to promote patriotism |
