1. Great Depression/New Deal Vocabulary

2. Black Tuesday October 29, 1929 when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash

3. Bonus Army Group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington D.C. in 1932, to demand early payment of a bonus promised for them by Congress

4. Deficit Spending Paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the government receives in revenues

5. Dust Bowl Term used for the central and southern Great Plains in the 1930s when the region sustained a period of drought and dust storms

6. Great Depression Period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment soared

7. Hooverville Term used to describe a makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression

8. Hawley-Smoot Tariff Highest import tax in history, passed by Congress in 1930

9. Hundred Days Period at the start of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency in 1933, when many New Deal programs were passed by Congress

10. Closed Shops Workplace open only to union members

11. Trickle down economics Economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers

12. New Deal Programs and legislation enacted by Franklin D Roosevelt during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery and social reform

13. Penny Auctions Farm auctions during the Great Depression at which neighbors saved each other’s property from foreclosure by bidding low

14. Public Works Administration Agency that provided millions of jobs constructing public buildings

15. Reconstruction Finance Corporation Federal agency set up by Congress in 1932 to provide emergency government credit to banks, railroads and other lare businesses

16. Social Security System 1935 law set up a pension system for retirees, established unemployment insurance, and created insurance for victims of work-related accidents; provided aid for poverty stricken mothers and children, the blind & the disabled

17. Speculation Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

18. Court Packing FDR plan to add up to 6 new justices to the nine-member Supreme Court after the Court had ruled that some New Deal legislation was unconstitutional

19. Wagner Act New Deal law that abolished unfair labor practices, recognized the right of employees to organize labor unions, and gave workers the right to collective bargaining.

20. Second New Deal legislative activity launched begun by President Roosevelt in 1935 to solve problems created by the Great Depression

21. Father Caughlin “radio Priest” who supported and then attacked President Roosevelt’s New Dal; prevented Catholic Church from broadcasting after he praised Hitler

22. Dorthea Lange Photographed migrant farm workers during the Great Depression; inspired Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

23. Huey Long LA politician in 1930’s; suggested redistributing large fortunes by means of grants to families; assassinated 1935

24. Frances Perkins The Secretary of Labor 1933-45 under Roosevelt; first woman Cabinet member

25. Fair Labor Standards Act 1938 law that set a minimum wage, a maximum workweek of 44 hours and outlawed child labor

26. The Grapes of Wrath Book about Dust Bowl victims who traveled to CA in search of a better life

27. Tennessee Valley Authority Government agency that built damns in the Tennessee River valley to control flooding & generate electric power

28. Fireside Chats Informal radio broadcasts in which FDR explained issues and New Deal programs to average Americans

29. Civilian Conservation Corps New Deal program that provided young men with relief jobs on environmental conservation projects