Time Between Wars

Which was NOT a LONG-TERM cause of the Great Depression?

• Buying stock on margin

• Stock market crash (Black Tuesday)

• too much production and consumer spending

• Laisezz-faire economic policies

The Great Depression began in

• 1925
• 1929
• 1932
• 1940

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

• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

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

• Tornados
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday 
• Hurricanes

This President enforced both New Deals and saw America through the Great Depression and World War II. 

• Eisenhower
• Truman
• Hoover
• Roosevelt 

A time in America following the roaring 20's where America experience rising unemployment that did not end until the onset of World War II. 

• New Deal
• Roaring 20's
• Great Depression
• Cold War 

In 1929, the stock market crash was the beginning of the "Great Depression." Which of the following BEST describes the Great Depression?

• The depression was severe, but only in the United States. 
• Governments acted quickly and the depression only lasted two years
• The depression caused revolutions all across the world. 
• Many countries around the world experienced the economic depression

Buying stocks with loans

• default
• on margin
• stock exchange

Hoovervilles were nicknames for what?

• Nickelodeons
• The White House during the Depression
• Shantytowns
• Stock Exchange