Great Depression

October 29th, 1929

• Black Monday
• Black Tuesday
• Black Wednesday
• Black Friday

President Hoover's philosophy that Americans must work harder to dig out of the depression.

• chicken in every pot
• rugged individualism
• Square Deal
• New Deal

The Dust Bowl devastated what part of the U.S. during the Great Depression?

• West Coast
• New England
• Deep South
• Great Plains

Which of the following DID NOT cause the Dust Bowl?

• overproduction
• windstorms
• drought
• tornadoes

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

• Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• Easy Credit
• Mistakes of the Federal Reserve
• high farm prices

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

• buying on margin
• speculation
• fiat money
• price supports

Buying stock without knowing the risks, assuming it will just go up is known as ________.

• speculation
• buying on margin
• market capitalization
• hammering the market

Who are these people?

• hoboes
• immigrants
• tourists
• carpet baggers

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This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest 

• Tornados
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday 
• Hurricanes

When people went to the bank to withdraw their money and the banks had no money was known as the 

• Bank Crisis 
• Black Tuesday
• Stock Market Crash
• New Deal