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The Great Depression - ✔✔The depression of the 1930's came to be called
"Great" because its efforts were so severe and long lasting. It generated record
levels of unemployment and widespread human distress across the U.S.
Grapes of Wrath - ✔✔John Steinbeck's novel about a struggling farm family
during the Great Depression. Gave a face to the violence and exploitation that
migrant farm workers faced in America
Okies - ✔✔Displaced farm families from the Oklahoma dust bowl who migrated
to California during the 1930s in search of jobs.
Herbert Hoover - ✔✔Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in
March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first
deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community,
which ultimately failed.
Dust Bowl - ✔✔Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930
lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages.
Groups at the Most Disadvantage by Great Depression - ✔✔Immigrants,
women, farmers, the urban employed, Native Americas, and African Americans
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, Smoot-Hawley Act - ✔✔intended to help the farm sector by raising tariff
barriers on farm products imported into the U.S. By trying to "protect"
American farmers from foreign competition, the bill would actually raise prices
on most raw materials and consumer products by impeding imports.
Hooverville's - ✔✔Shantytowns sprouted in vacant lots where people erected
shacks out of cardboard and scrap wood and metal
Workhouses - ✔✔Was a place where people who were unable to support
themselves could go to live and work.
Black Tuesday - ✔✔October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in
American history and indirectly led to the great depression
1. What was the highest unemployment rate? (est./occurred in 1933) - ✔✔25%
Major causes off the Great Depression - ✔✔The Stock Market Crash of 1929
• The Fallout of the Great War & German Reparations
• Government Policies like The Smoot Hawley Act & High Tariffs
• Speculation in the Stock Market & Less Consumer Spending
1. Largest Criticism of FDR By Some Historians - ✔✔Expansion of the Federal
Government.
1. Stock Market Crash of 29' - ✔✔Indirect Cause of Great Depression
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The Great Depression - ✔✔The depression of the 1930's came to be called
"Great" because its efforts were so severe and long lasting. It generated record
levels of unemployment and widespread human distress across the U.S.
Grapes of Wrath - ✔✔John Steinbeck's novel about a struggling farm family
during the Great Depression. Gave a face to the violence and exploitation that
migrant farm workers faced in America
Okies - ✔✔Displaced farm families from the Oklahoma dust bowl who migrated
to California during the 1930s in search of jobs.
Herbert Hoover - ✔✔Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in
March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first
deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community,
which ultimately failed.
Dust Bowl - ✔✔Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930
lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages.
Groups at the Most Disadvantage by Great Depression - ✔✔Immigrants,
women, farmers, the urban employed, Native Americas, and African Americans
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, Smoot-Hawley Act - ✔✔intended to help the farm sector by raising tariff
barriers on farm products imported into the U.S. By trying to "protect"
American farmers from foreign competition, the bill would actually raise prices
on most raw materials and consumer products by impeding imports.
Hooverville's - ✔✔Shantytowns sprouted in vacant lots where people erected
shacks out of cardboard and scrap wood and metal
Workhouses - ✔✔Was a place where people who were unable to support
themselves could go to live and work.
Black Tuesday - ✔✔October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in
American history and indirectly led to the great depression
1. What was the highest unemployment rate? (est./occurred in 1933) - ✔✔25%
Major causes off the Great Depression - ✔✔The Stock Market Crash of 1929
• The Fallout of the Great War & German Reparations
• Government Policies like The Smoot Hawley Act & High Tariffs
• Speculation in the Stock Market & Less Consumer Spending
1. Largest Criticism of FDR By Some Historians - ✔✔Expansion of the Federal
Government.
1. Stock Market Crash of 29' - ✔✔Indirect Cause of Great Depression
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