1. Vocab
Read the definition and decide on a definition in your own words with your partner.
Decide if this word is a cause or effect of the Great Depression
Write down your definition and draw an image for the phrase.

2. Stock market crash the period of plunging stock market prices that helped initiate the Great Depression
Black Tuesday; the worst day of plunging stock market prices during the stock market crash that helped initiate the Great Depression
Hooverville during the Great Depression, a shantytown of makeshift dwelling.
New Deal President Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic program from 1933 to 1939, which aimed to bring about immediate economic relief from the Great Depression

3. Dust Bowl an area of the Great Plains of the United States that suffered severely from wind erosion during the 1930s
Okies a nickname for a person who migrated from the Dust Bowl to California during the Great Depression
Foreclosure the legal process by which a lender takes over a property it has helped a borrower buy, usually because the buyer has failed to make payments
National Industrial Recovery Act as part of the New Deal, a law passed by Congress in to increase production while boosting wages and prices;