1. This is a picture of Herbert Hoover. He was the President during the Great Depression.
2. Hoovervilles was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after President Hoover.
3. This picture shows people lined up in a breadline. Breadlines were for the people during the Great Depression who didn’t have work, and didn’t have money to eat, so they go and get free bread.
4. The dust bowl period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940).
5. The stock market is The October 1929 crash came during a period of declining real estate values in the United States (which peaked in 1925 near the beginning of a chain of events that led to the Great Depression, a period of economic decline in the industrialized nations.
6. Black Tuesday is also known as the great crash in 1929 The depression originated in the United States, starting with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday), but quickly spread to almost every country in the world.
7. Bonus Army the Bonus Marchers were more popularly known as the Bonus Army The war veterans, many of whom had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression, sought immediate cash payment of Service Certificates granted to them eight years earlier via the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924.
8. Shantytowns are mostly found in developing nations, or partially developed nations with an unequal distribution of wealth.
9. The Grapes of Wrath I chose this one because it was a novel Set during the Great Depression.
10. Speculation implies that a business or investment risk can be analyzed and measured, and its distinction from the term Investment is one of degree of risk.



1. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States. He is known for helping bring the country out of the Great Depression.
2. Eleanor Roosevelt supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights.
3. WPA (Works Progress Administration) was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.
4. Social Security Act the Act provided benefits to retirees and the unemployed, and a lump-sum benefit at death.
5. AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area.
6. New Deal was a series of economic programs passed by Congress during the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, from 1933 to his reelection in 1937.
7. FDIC (Glass-Steagall Act) was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and introduced banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation.
8. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) was a public work relief program for unemployed men, providing vocational training.
9. SEC (Federal Securities Act) was created by section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
10. Motion Pictures the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry.



1. This is a picture of Babe Ruth I choose this picture of him because he was an American major league baseball player during 1914–1935, who became the best player in baseball during the 1920s.
2. This picture of the NAACP, which represents the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, gained strength and membership during the 1920s.
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself.
4. This is a picture of one of the most popular woman blues singer’s Bessie Smith in the 1920s.
5. I chose this man Langston Hughes because he was well known for his poetry and he was also known for what he wrote about the Harlem Renaissance.
6. Zora Neale Hurston I picked her because she was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
7. Charles Lindbergh was a famous American aviator from the 1920s. He was also an inventor an explorer.
8. Duke Ellington is largely recognized as one of the greatest figures in the history of jazz. He career flourished during the Harlem Renaissance.
9. Claude McKay was a Jamaican writer and poet who gained recognition during the Harlem renaissance.
10. George Gershwin was an American composer who played the piano. His music was widely listened to during the 1920s.