Drag the tiles to the correct boxes to complete the pairs.
Many Americans faced crippling poverty, hunger, and homelessness during the Great Depression. In the activity below, match the appropriate term with
its definition to better understand the particular impacts felt by Americans across the economic spectrum.
breadlines and soup lines
Hoovervilles
groups of impoverished Americans waiting for publicly
provided food
rush on financial institutions, draining cash reserves
and causing them to collapse
shanty towns of newly homeless workers, consisting
of poorly built structures prone to fire and collapse
the reclaiming of a home or business by a bank after
a homeowner or business owner fails to pay their debts
bank runs
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foreclosure