Great Depression

Great Depression

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History

11th Grade

Hard

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1.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What was the event during the Great Depression characterized by a severe drought in the Great Plains, where strong prairie winds picked up topsoil and spread dust everywhere, causing many farm families to move west?

Back

Dust Bowl

2.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed and Depression began?

Back

Herbert Hoover

3.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

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Back

Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

The photograph best illustrates which impact of the Great Depression upon Americans?

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Back

Large numbers of people were, hungry and unemployed

5.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

What were the cardboard shacks that people forced to live in public parks called?

Back

Hoovervilles

6.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

Speculation

Back

to buy or sell stocks or land, hoping to gain huge profits quickly

7.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

Front

On what day did the "bottom fall out" of the stock market becoming one of the leading causes of the Great Depression?

Back

October 29, 1929

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