Unit 11: The Great Depression and New Deal Vocab part 2

Breadlines

places where people waited in line for free or low priced food.

Eviction

The legal process of removing a tenant from rental property

First Hundred Days

This term refers to March 4 to June 16, 1933. During this period of dramatic legislative productivity, FDR laid out the programs that constituted the New Deal. Today, presidents are often measured by their actions in the same period of time

Foreclosure

Process by which the holder of a mortgage sells the property of a homeowner who has not made interest and/or principal payments on time as stipulated in the mortgage contract

Hoovervilles

Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress

Liberal

open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

Living Wage

a wage that enables workers to support a decent life for themselves and their families

Malnutrition

lack of proper nutrition

New Deal

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

Property Value

the worth of a piece of real estate on the market

Public Works

projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use

Radical

Favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms.

Reconstruction Finance Corporations

a government agency created by Congress in 1932 to provide loans to banks, railroads, and big businesses and later also to farmers and public works projects

Social Welfare

A nation's system of programs, benefits, and services that help people meet those social, economic, educational, and health needs that are fundamental to the maintenance of society.

Soup Kitchens

These were places where poor U.S. citizens could go and get free meals.

Status Quo

the existing state of affairs

Trickle-down Theory

decreased income taxes for the wealthy would promote business and therefore the whole economy