#Depressed

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

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Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.

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Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

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Herbert Hoover

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How did "bank runs" impact the American people during the Great Depression?

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Banks lost the money they loaned and people's life savings were gone.

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The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the She She She were both New Deal programs developed to address the problem of

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high unemployment.

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Paying a small % of a stock's price & borrowing the rest is known as what?

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Buying on margin

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Who is the woman mainly responsible for the progressive nature of FDR's New Deal?

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Frances Perkins, Francis Perkins

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What does this quote suggest about the Great Depression? "...her father was a doctor, and her mother was a nurse. Well, how nice. They had respectable employment. In my family, there was no respectable employment. I thought, you don't know what it is like."

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Not all Americans experienced it the same way.