Great Depression

Great Depression

With Mrs. Gilbert

Multiple Choice

Ownership in shares of a company or corporation

• CEO
• Insurance
• Stocks

Multiple Choice

Define Black Tuesday

• Group of government programs created to try and end the Great Depression.

• October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed. It was the official start of the Great Depression

• Minimal improvement in economy. FDR urged congress to pass additional programs.

Multiple Choice

Define The Great Depression

• Loan given to help you buy items you normally cannot buy on your own.

• homeless person who travels looking for work.

• The time in American history when the U.S. was at it's lowest point.

Multiple Choice

Explain the Stock Market Crash.

• People purchased stocks with credit, got scared and sold their stocks. There was no money to pay people their money

• People purchased stock

• People threw their money away

Multiple Choice

What were the 3 causes of the Great Depression?

• FDR, The New Deal, The Second New Deal

• Herbert Hoover, Hobos, Riding the Rails

• Credit, Stock Market Crash, Corruption

Unemployment NOTES

• Less production meant companies needed fewer workers.

• 100,000 people lost their jobs.

• Many were poor and hungry

Soup Kitchen NOTES

• Many American couldn't provide food for their families.

• Charities opened Soup Kitchens to help.

• People would wait in line all day for the small meal.

Herbert Hoover NOTES

• Hoover thought churches and charities should help the struggling American people.

• He did not think it was the government's job to help the citizens.

• Many people felt he did not do enough to help the country through the Great Depression.

Hooverville NOTES

• Hoover didn't cause the depression, but he didn't do much to help.

• Homeless communities were called "Hoovervilles".

• Empty pockets were called "Hoover Flags"

• Newspapers were called "Hoover Blankets"

Dust Bowl NOTES

• A drought hit the Great Plains.

• The land was overworked and dry.

• Dust storms happened often.

• The land was unusable.

Multiple Choice

People who could no longer afford their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they built in public parks. What were these shacks called?

• Shantyshacks
• Town Homes
• Tenement Housing
• Hoovervilles

Multiple Choice

Charities that provided bread and soup to homeless and jobless people during the Depression were called _______?

• Priest Palace
• Soup and Salad Bowls
• Soup Kitchens
• Goodwill

Multiple Choice

During the Great Depression, there was a severe drought in the Great Plains. Strong prairie winds picked up the topsoil and spread dust everywhere. Many farm families packed everything up and moved west. What was this event called?

• Dust Bowl
• Salad Bowl
• Great Plains Panic
• Depressing Dust

Multiple Choice

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

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• William McKinley

Multiple Choice

What is another name for the Stock Market Crash?

• Black Friday
• Taco Tuesday
• Black Tuesday
• Throwback Thursday

Multiple Choice

When did the Stock Market crash?

• October 31, 1929
• September 29, 1931
• August 29, 1991
• October 29, 1929

Multiple Choice

President during the 1930s who was considered a failure because he couldn't fix the Great Depression.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Margaret Mitchell
• Jessie Owens