The Great Depression

The New York Stock Market crashed in November of 1929

• True

• False

What did people call the shantytowns popping up across America during the depression

• apartments

• parks

• Hoovervilles

• tenements

Because of the rough conditions in the Dust Bowl, thousands of farmers moved to

• Hawaii

• California

• New York

• Florida

money given in addition to what is owed

• default

• Dust Bowl

• drought

• bonus

By 1932, one half of all African Americans had no jobs

• True

• False

a place where shares in a business, are bought and sold

• foreclosure

• stock market

• depression

• default

The Great Plains includes Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi

• True

• False

President Hoover defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1932 election

• True

• False

a long period of very dry weather

• drought

• migrant workers

• default

• depression

Many teenagers left home during the depression, they felt like they should support themselves instead of being a burden to their families

• True

• False