Chapters 14 and 15 Great Depression and New Deal Visual Vocabulary Quiz

1. A federal corporation established in 1933 to construct dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley region to generate electricity as well as to prevent floods.

2. A measure based on the prices of stocks of 30 large companies, widely used as a barometer of the stock market’s health.

3. An agency enacted in 1933 to insure individuals’ bank accounts, protecting people against losses due to bank failures.

4. A neighborhood in which people live in makeshift shacks.

5. A line of people waiting for free food.

6. President Franklin Roosevelt’s program to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform.

7. A name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply.

8. The giving of money or food by the government directly to needy people.

9. A law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children.

10. President of the U.S. from ; Republican; engineer and humanitarian that eventually was blamed for the Great Depression; believed in “rugged individualism” and “laissez-faire” economics.

11. The region, including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930’s.

12. A group of World War I veterans and their families who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for military service.

13. A period, lasting from 1929 to 1940, in which the U.S. economy was in severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed.

14. President of the U.S. from ; Democrat; defeated Hoover by a landslide in the election of 1932; created the New Deal and helped America recover from the Great Depression.

15. An involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit.

16. A place where free or low cost food is served to the needy.

17. Migrant farmers from the Great Plains that packed their belongings and headed West to find work as farmhands after losing their farms during the Great Depression.

18. An arrangement in which a buyer pays later for a purchase, often on an installment plan with interest charges.

19. A novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1939, that deals with a family of Oklahomans who leave the Dust Bowl for California.

20. The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest.