Learning Target: WBAT examine the course and consequences of the Great Depression and

New DealIWBAT analyze attempts to extend New Deal legislation through the Great Society and the successes and failures of these programs to

promote economic stability

Textbook Pages 634-637

Hoovervilles: Popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression.

Foreclosure: When the holder of a mortgage seizes the property of a homeowner who has not made interest and/or principal payments on time.

Property Values: Practice of developing an opinion of the value of real property.

Malnutrition: Poor nutrition because of an insufficient or poorly balanced diet or faulty digestion or utilization of foods.

Soup kitchen: Place where free food is served to those who are homeless or destitute.

Dust Bowl: Name given to areas of the U.S. prairie states that suffered ecological devastation in the 1930s.

Grapes of Wrath: Novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck about the Great Depression.

New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s domestic program from 1933 to 1939 which aimed to bring about immediate economic relief from the Great Depression.

First Hundred Days: The first 3 months of FDR’s Presidency, during which Congress passed a record number of bills in order to implement the New Deal and provide relief, recovery, and reform from the Great Depression.

Relief: Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration. Recovery: Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand. Reform: Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure

citizens against economic disasters. Living Wage: A wage high enough to provide an acceptable standard of

living. Fireside Chats: series of informal radio addresses given by President

Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, to explain policies to the public Social Security Act: A law passed by Congress in 1935 to establish

federal programs to offer old-age assistance and benefits, unemployment compensation, and aid to needy mothers, children, and the blind.

America Story of Us Video (Bust) Describe what life was like during the

Great Depression, and explain how the New Deal attempted to get us out of the Depression?