US History: Standard 17 Review

US economy experienced a severe recession triggered by the stock market crash in 1929:

• Great Depression

• Dust Bowl

• Hoover's Recession

• The New Deal

Overproduction of goods led to a surplus describes:

• an effect of the Dust Bowl

• a key point of the New Deal

• a cause of the Great Depression

• all of these

How did overspending contribute to and worsen the Great Depression?

• consumers overly reliant on credit

• consumers spending money they didn't have

• led to under-consumption after market crash

• all of these

Market speculation through buying and selling stocks shows

• cause of the Dust Bowl

• key provision of the New Deal

• policy to improve Hoovervilles

• get rich quick cause of the Great Depression

Bank closures across the US because they were unable to collect on outstanding loans describes

• how the Dust Bowl started

• how the banking panic contributed to the Great Depression

• how consumer overspending led to Great Depression

• how get rich quick attitudes contributed to Great Depression

The Great Depression was caused by

• under consumption

• overproduction

• stock market crash

• all of these

Worst drought in US history caused by overproduction and dry weather cycle during 1930s:

• Great Depression

• Okie Era

• Dust Bowl

• Hooverville

Farmers knowing the region's regular wet and dry cycles could have

• had little impact on the Dust Bowl

• reduced severity of the Dust Bowl

• increased severity of the Dust Bowl

• caused the Great Migration

The Homestead Act encouraging settlers to claim land and demand for grain grew during WWI shows

• reasons why Dust Bowl region was over-farmed

• reasons why the Dust Bowl was prevented

• reasons for the Great Migration

• reasons for the Great Depression

Some families moved to Colorado and California lived as migrant farm workers because of

• the Great Migration

• the Dust Bowl

• Hoovervilles

• the Great Depression