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What was the time period called
during the 1930s?
The Great Depression
What was the 19th Amendment?
Gave women the right to vote.
What happened to jobs as an effect
of the New Deal?
Jobs were becoming available for
more Americans due to the New Deal.
When did the stock market crash?
October 29, 1929
What year did FDR defeat Hoover?
1932 and took office in 1933.
When factories did not produce more, Workers were laid off.
what happened to jobs?
What happened as a result of the
stock market crash?
Most Americans lost everything due to
bank closings, such as
Their money, their homes, and their
jobs.
What was the Dust Bowl?
A severe drought in the Great Plains
that caused farm families to suffer.
Without water, crops dried up and
farmers lost everything.
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What happened to people’s money in Due to bank closings, people lost
their savings accounts during the Great everything in their savings accounts.
Depression?
After the Depression, the FDIC
started insuring savings up to
$250,000
Why was FDR elected?
He gave Americans new hope. He
promised a “new deal” for them.
What is the Social Security Act?
Provides funds for the elderly (65
years and older) and the disabled. Still
in effect today.
What is the TVA?
*Tennessee Valley Authority
*States along the TN River such as TN,
GA, and SC
*People working for the TVA built
dams on the TN River. The dams
created hydroelectricity for rural areas
in the Southeast.
Caused suffering for farm families.
Farmers lost everything. Many moved
west looking for work in California.
What states did it affect?
What did it do?
What was the effect of the Dust Bowl
on farmers in the Great Plains?
How did Hoover and FDR differ in
their beliefs on how to take the United
States out of the Depression?
Hoover didn’t think the government
should help and FDR thought they
should. He thought the government
should create jobs for the unemployed.
What were the causes of the Great
Depression?
Stock market crashed,
Bank failures, Farmer debt and a
slowing economy
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What is the CCC?
What is the WPA?
Why did Eleanor Roosevelt start the
National Youth Administration for
young people?
Civilian Conservation Corps
Its goal was to create jobs and
conserve, or protect, the natural
environment.
Works Progress Administration
*It hired people to build streets, parks,
libraries, and schools. It paid artists to
paint murals on public buildings and
hired authors to write books about the
U.S.
To create jobs for young people.
Who was Margaret Mitchell?
She was the author of the novel, Gone
with the Wind. She was also from
Atlanta.
Who was Duke Ellington?
Famous jazz musician in the 1930s.
Who was Jesse Owens?
A track star, and also a hero in the
1930s. He won four gold medals in the
1936 Olympics.
What was the focus of the Second
New Deal?
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Relief and reform
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