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Topic 13 - Great Depression Study Guide
VOCABULARY:
Bull Market
Bear Market
Buying on Margin
Speculation
Localism
“Rugged Individualism”
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Trickle-down economics
Black Tuesday
Hoover Dam
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Bonus Army
Breadline
New Deal
Hooverville
Brain Trust
Hoover blanket
Black Cabinet
Tenant farmer
Dust Bowl
Fireside Chats
Hundred Days
Sit-down strike
Okies
mural
Repatriation
PEOPLE:
Herbert Hoover
Frances Perkins
Duke Ellington
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Shirley Temple
General MacArthur
Mary McLeod Bethune
THEMES, EVENTS, AND IDEAS:
October 29, 1929 – Black Tuesday (events, how much money was lost)
Panic of 1929 (what was it, how much lost)
Statistics (# of stocks sold on Black Tuesday, bank closures, business closures,
unemployment rate overall and of African Americans)
Hoover’s Response to the Depression
Bonus Army (who were they, what did they want, how were they treated)
Roosevelt’s New Deal (what did the following programs say/do)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)/Wagner Act
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Social Security Act
Indian New Deal
Indian Reorganization Act
Federal Art Project
Conservation Efforts
Culture/Entertainment (movies, radio shows, literature, comic books)