Great Depression Review

How did people feel about the economy in the 1920’s?

• frightened & frustrated
• confident in business & prosperous
•  frightened & prosperous 
• confident in business & frustrated 

What was the Dust Bowl? 

• The first NFL Super Bowl
• largest hurricane in history
• environmental crisis & drought
• largest tornado in Great Plains history

What ended prohibition? 

• 20^th Amendment
• 21^st Amendment
• 22^nd Amendment
• 24^th Amendment

Which group faced hard times during the 1920s? 

• farmers
• bankers
• business men
• women

How did investors react to the fall of stock prices in 1929? 

• waited for the market to recover
• waited for the market to recover and then sold
• raced to sell
• stole everyone’s money and ran

During the Depression what happened to minorities and their jobs? 

• they kept them
• they lost them to white laborers
• they lost them to foreigners
• they kept them and earned a raise

The election of 1932 brought about a turning point in the role of the? 

• local government 
• state government
• foreign government
• federal government

What did Hoover believe was the best strategy for ending the Depression? 

• strict federal control of business
• voluntary controls in business
• strict foreign control of business
• voluntary government

A major disagreement in the election of 1932 was?  

• whose responsibility it was to fix the problem
• who was the prettiest presidential candidate
• whether to update the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• whether or not to relocate Hooverville tenants

Why did the banks close after the crash? 

• they had too much money
• they were tired of saving money
• the bankers went on vacation
• they couldn’t give back people’s money