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| People sold their stocks, stock prices plunged |
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| Brokers lent out money, everybody was buying on credit |
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| More products produced than people could buy |
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| People were not buying as much as the economy was producing |
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| Raised tariffs on imports, was meant to help Americans but harmed them because europeans made a "trade war" out of it and raised there taxes too |
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| Group of veterans who wanted their promised bonus money from being in ww1 |
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| Led the protests in d.c. to persuade congress to accelerate payment of bonuses |
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| Shantytowns that homeless americans in many cities built out of cardboard |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
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| Issued government loans to banks, railroads, and other big businesses |
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| Roosevelts plan to do whatever it took to get the us out of this crisis |
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| Government dispensed record amount of bills of relief. |
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| National flood control program |
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| National Industrial Recovery Act |
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| Increase production while boosting wages and prices. Targeted bussiness, labor unions, and the unemployed |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Administration |
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| Aided farmers by reducing crop production which raised crop prices |
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| Bill of rights for organized labor |
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