The Great Depression

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 

The President who was mostly blamed for worsening the Great Depression 

• Roosevelt 
• Eisenhower
• Hoover
• Jefferson

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On October 29, 1929 share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and partially caused the Great Depression.

• Black Thursday
• Black Tuesday 
• Black Friday
• Black Sunday 

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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 

The Great Depression was an economic slowdown in the 1920s and 1930s. Which of the following was one cause of the Great Depression in the United States?

• the end of the gold rush 
• the crash of the stock exchange 
• the ending of World War II 
• the high price of oil 

The Great Depression that began in 1929 hit farmers especially hard. Farmers had not been doing well in the 1920s and several years of severe drought turned the land into a "dust bowl." What was an immediate result of this?

• Many farmers decided to grow crops that did not use as much water. 
• The government built large dams in the West for irrigation. 
• Many farmers and their families lost their farms and moved west. 
• The government helped farmers by buying their land and equipment. 

Homes that were in parks and built out of cardboard boxes were called Hoovervilles. 

• True
• False

What was a result of the slowing economy during the late 1920s?

• Jobs became available.

• Factories overproduced products.

• Stockholders and investors began selling their stocks.

• People used the installment plan.

What happened to bank customers in the 1930s?

• They asked the bank for loans to buy stocks.

• Their earned interest on their savings accounts.

• They sold their houses to the bank for a profit.

• Many of them lost their savings when the banks closed.