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A law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.

At the time of the Great Depression, this was a source of help for older people and people who couldn't work to provide for themselves.

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A construction agency in the U.S. headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

Was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression.

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A U.S. federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock.

Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops.

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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A U.S. government agency that oversees security transactions, activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception.

The legislation was designed to help investors feel more comfortable about putting their money back into the stock market.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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An independent agency of the federal government responsible for insuring deposits made by individuals and companies in banks and other thrift institutions.

Was to restore trust in the American banking system; more than one-third of banks failed in the years before the FDIC's creation, and bank runs were common.

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A federal agency that controls the electricity, irrigation and flood control from the dams and reservoirs along the Tennessee River.

The agency created by President Roosevelt in 1933 to provide cheaper electricity could be an example of TVA.

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The largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

This helped provide jobs for people and help construct things that would help reform America.

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A public work relief program that operated from 1933 - 1942 in the U.S. for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal.

Even the people that didn't have families needed help, if anything they needed more help because they didn't have anyone.

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Investors were able speculate wildly, buying stocks on margin, needing only 10% of the price of a stock to be able to complete the purchase.

Can be identified as one of the factors leading into the Great Depression.

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Tax placed on particular imports or exports.

This included the Hawley - Smoot Tariff.

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A series of social liberal programs enacted in the U.S. between 1933 - 1938, plus a few that came later.

Included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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The central bank of the United States.

Created by the Congress to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.

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A bill that was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt on July 5, 1935.

Established collective bargaining as a remedy to the violent conflict going on between labor unions and employers.

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Introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic crisis.

The goal was to restore confidence in the economy during the Great Depression.

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Economic policies that are seemed to favor the wealthy or privileged.

Theory that focuses on taking care of the "top" and and they will take care of the "bottom". ... Herbert Hoover believed in this theory and this could be a reason why the Great Depression started.

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A migrant agricultural worker from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave during the Depression of the 1930s.

These people had to leave to find jobs in other areas. They were often unwanted.

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A shantytown, built by homeless people during the Great Depression.

The homes didn't have floors just walls and a roof.

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Raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.

Intent was to preserve American jobs, particularly in the agricultural sector, by discouraging foreign imports.

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An area which consisted of the states: Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s.

Caused many people to move and lose their farms.

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A series of thirty radio conversations by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 - 1944.

Used to address and explain policies to the American public.

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The gathering of 43,000 marchers and 17,000 U.S. WWI veterans, families, and affiliated groups, who came together in Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand money for their services.

Many of the veterans had been out of the war with no money during the Great Depression.

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The work of building things the public can use.

During the Great Depression public works helped people

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On October 29, 1929, share prices on  the NY Stock Exchange collapsed.

This event became the main factor towards the beginning of the Great Depression.