Great Depression

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Agency established by Herbert Hoover to make loans to banks and businesses in the Great Depression

John Steinbeck

American writer who wrote about the misery experienced in the Great Depression. His most famous book was the Grapes of Wrath about the hardships of thevictims of the Dust Bowl

Black Tuesday

October 29, 1929; the beginning of the Great Depression when the stock market crashed

Dust Bowl

Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages.

Hoovervilles

Shanty towns that the unemployed built in the cities during the early years of the Depression; the name given to them shows that thte people blamed Hoover directly for the Depression.

Mexican Repatriation Act

Special law authorized by President Hoover to send Mexican-American immigrants back to Mexico. More than half a million Mexican-Americans were forcibly sent back to Mexico during the Great Depression, many of whom were lawful American citizens, separated from their families.

Relief, Recovery, Reform

These were the categories into which the New Deal was split. Relief defined by the acts implemented in the area of aid to the unemployment. Recovery put forth measures that would help aid in the speedy recovery of areas hit hardest by the depression. Reform tried to recreate areas that seemed faulty

Dorothea Lange

United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression

Great Depression

the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.