Chapters 14 and 15
Great Depression and New Deal
Visual Vocabulary
Quiz
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.
4. A neighborhood in which people live in
makeshift shacks.
5. A line of people waiting for free food.
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.
7. A name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices
fell sharply.
8. The giving of money or food by the government
directly to needy people.
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.
15. An involvement in risky business transactions
in an effort to make a quick or large profit.
16. A place where free or low cost food is served
to the needy.
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.
20. The purchasing of stocks by paying only a
small percentage of the price and borrowing the
rest.