a queue of people waiting for free food Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages

1. bread line

a queue of people waiting for free food

2. 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.

3. direct relief

money or food given directly from the government to the needy

4. Herbert Hoover

President from 1929 to 1933, called on businesses to help solve the situation rather than the government. Americans felt he did little to help them.

5. Boulder Dam

Hoover's eventual attempt to jump start the economy was directing federal funds to this large construction project.

6. Federal Home Loan Bank Act

lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farm loans and avoid foreclosure

7. Reconstruction Finance Corporation

- designed to make loans to banks, insurance companies and railroads
- lent lots of money to people at the top of the system (TRICKLE DOWN THEORY)
- didn't work

8. Bonus Army

Group of WWI vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their goverment war bonuses in cash

9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Democratic candidate who won the 1932 election by a landslide. He refused to uphold any of Hoover's policies with the intent on enacting his own. He pledged a present a "New Deal" (its specific meaning ambiguous at the time to the American people) to the American public.

10. New Deal

Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems of the Great Depression