1. Borrowing money to buy stocks

 

  1. They wanted the bonuses promised to WWI veterans in 1945;  Washington, DC

 

3.  Causes of the Great Depression

Stock Market crash

People depending on credit to buy things

Increase in unemployment

Large gap between the wealthy and the poor

People spent less

 

  1.  Republican:  Herbert Hoover

Democrat:  FDR

 

  1. Francis Perkins; more than a 100

 

  1. to look for jobs

 

  1. Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Texas

 

  1. California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Florida;  many families headed west because of the damage caused by the drought and dust storms.

 

  1. Social Security provided monthly pensions ($) to retired people, and financial ($) help to children with disabilities, the elderly poor, and children whose families could not support them.

 

  1. Many business leaders did not want the federal government to interfere with the economy.

 

  1. The Great Plains

 

  1. Many African Americans and women held government offices for the first time or served as advisers to the president.

 

  1. its network of rivers

 

  1. Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee

 

  1. Kentucky, Wilson, Wheeler, Guntersville, Chickamauga, Watts Bar, Cherokee, Douglas, and Norris Dams