| A | B |
|---|
| Black Tuesday | day the stock market crashed |
| Herbert Hoover | U.S. President during the early years of the Great Depression |
| Franklin Roosevelt | U.S. President who created the New Deal |
| Supply and Demand | factors used for regulating prices |
| James Braddock | boxer whose life was depicted in the movie "Cinderella Man" |
| Hoovervilles | shantytowns built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression |
| Social Security Board | New Deal program created to distribute federal retirement funds |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | New Deal program created to provide jobs and electricity to the poor Appalachian Mountains region |
| Public Works | programs designed to create jobs constructing roads, dams, schools, hospitals, etc. |
| Soup Kitchen | provided free or low-cost food for needy people |
| Dust Bowl | area in the Great Plains where farms dried up |
| Unemployment Rate | nearly 25% of the U.S. population in 1933 were jobless |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | insured the deposits of approved banks against loss in the event of bank failure |
| Federal Housing Administration | provide mortgage insurance on loans made by FHA-approved lenders |
| National Labor Relations Board | protected employees rights to self-organization and collective bargaining |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | oversees the stock market to o promote fair dealing, the disclosure of important market information, and to prevent fraud. |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock to reduce crop surplus and effectively raise the value of crops |
