chapters 14 and 15 great depression and new deal visual vocabulary quiz
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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.
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.
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 1929-1933; 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 1933-1945; Democrat; defeated Hoover by a landslide in the election of 1932;
created the New Deal and helped America recover from the Great Depression.
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.