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| Black Tuesday | Oct. 29, 1929 - the day the stock market CRASHED! |
| Consumers | people spending money on goods and services |
| Great Depression | the period of time from 1920-1941 in which America faced economic hard times |
| relief | giving help to the needy |
| Hoovervilles | shack villages/shanty towns which sprang up during hoover's presidency |
| public works programs | programs created by the government to provide jobs and help people earn money |
| public works programs | built new schools, courthouses, dams, paved highways, etc. |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) | loaned money to RRs, banks, and insurance companies to keep them in business |
| Hoover Flag | empty pocket turned inside out |
| Hoover leather | cardboard parch that covered a hole in a shoe |
| bonus | an additional sum of money |
| Hoover blanket | newspapers used by the homelwss to keep warm |
| Bonus Army | 1932 jobless vets marched to Washington, DC to deman dthe bonus Congress had promised to py them in 1945 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | president of the US during the Great Depression |
| FDR | "The only thing we have to fear, is frear itself." |
| Francis Perkins | first female to hold a presidential cabinet position |
| public works | roads, bridges, and other structures that are built for public use at public cost |
| New Deal | FDRs program to revive the country from the Great Depression |
| relief | the aim of FDRs New Deal to relieve the poverty of many Americans following the Depression |
| The 100 Days | first part of FDRs first term during which Congress passed many New Deal programs |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | Federal agency crated to protect savings deposits in banks |
| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | Federal agency established in 1933 to develop the waterpower and other resources of the Tennessee River |
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | New Deal agency that put some 3 million young men to work on conservation and rural improvement projects |
| Fireside Chats | informal presidential speech given by FDR in the 1930s |
| Brain Trust | Advisers of FDR who were mostly college professors |
| Social Security Act | Law passed in 1935 that created a system to provide old-age insurance and unemployment compensation |
| Black Cabinet | African American advisers during FDRs New Deal Era |
| welfare state | sutuation in which the government assumes a large measure of responsibility for the social well-being of the people |
| Works Progress Administration | New Deal agency which found useful work for millions of unemployed people |
