The Great Depression

The Day the Stock Market Crashed

• Black Tuesday
• Black Thursday
• Red Tuesday
• Red Thursday

What does a bank do with your money when you deposit it?

• Keep it
• Lock it up
• Invest it
• Steal it

When the stock market slipped, the entire public went to their bank to take out their money and pay their losses.

• Banking
• Bear Market
• Bull Market
• Bank Run

The president during the start of the Great Depression?

• Calvin Coolidge
• Warren G. Harding
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

Shanty Towns, where people who lost their homes lived

• Suburbs
• Uptown
• Hooverville's
• FDResorts

Hoover did not believe that the government should help pull people out of the depression

• True
• False

The overproduction of wheat

• Drove prices down
• Helped farmers
• Drove prices up
• Increased the demand for wheat

The Dust Bowl was a natural disaster and a man made disaster.

• True
• False

What natural disaster led to the Dust Bowl?

• Monsoons
• Tornadoes
• Drought
• Earthquakes

What role did famers play in causing the dust bowl?

• None
• It was all their fault
• Did not rotate crops; ruined the soil
• Did not harvest crops; brought locusts to their fields