Great Depression Vocab Hoboes The Great Depression Assets Foreclosure Hoovervilles Dust Bowl Okies ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck
Bread lines and Soup Kitchens
Hoovervilles
Section 3 Vocab The Bonus Army – WWI veterans that were owed a bonus….The U.S. government refused to pay them so they marched in protest to Washington. ‘Rugged Individualism’ – Hoover’s idea that everyone had to help themselves before the government could help them. Bad idea at the time. The Hoover Dam Cooperative RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corporation) – you could generally say this was a bail out of the banks. Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act