| A | B |
| Fireside Chats | Radio program given by FDR |
| pension | a paycheck or stipend |
| brain trust | FDR's cabinet members |
| New Deal | Roosevelt's plan to recover from the Great Depression |
| bank holiday | closing of banks |
| Hooversville | place where homeless people lived |
| Dust Bowl | area of severe drought |
| SEC | agency created to regulate the stock market |
| FDIC | agency that restored peoples faith in banks |
| SSA | offered monthly pensions to the elderly |
| unemployment | shot up to nearly 25% |
| soup kitchens | places set up to feed the homeless and unemployed |