The Great Depression

What caused the economic down turn?

• There were absolutely NO farms.

• The Stock Market Crashed.

• Banks did not have all the money the people needed, so they closed.

• Dust bowl!

• None of the above

What happened to make the Dust Bowl happen?

• People threw Bowls filled with dust on the plains.

• Poorly farmed land became loose and eroded over time.

• Too many people lived in the plains, and it was too crowded.

• Native Americans made the dust storms for pay back for taking their lands.

What were the major effects of the depression?

• Unemployment

• homelessness because their homes were taken away when they could not pay for them.

• They got happy, and more wealthy, new technologies, and flappers.

• Nothing really happened.

• The farmers had more crops then they could sell at the time.

What made the economy pull out of the depression?

• World War 2

• A party!

• The migrants from the west.

• The New Deal made by FDR

• World War 1

What was the new deal?

• Made by FDR, it was a plan to help the economy.

• A type of soup.

• It was a plan that consisted with many abbreviation, and it was supposed to help America out of the depression.

• Made by a group who was against FDR.

What was the groups that gave out free soup and bread called?

• A soup group.

• A soup kitchen.

• Free soup and bread company.

• It was called many things, and was not just one thing. Some called it a soup Kitchen, others called it a soup line.

• Hoovervilles

What were hoovervilles?

• A group of migrant workers who took every crop and object they had.

• A village for the homeless made of cardboard and news paper.

• A time where there were a lot of dust storms in the west caused by poor farming.

• Migrants from Oklahoma, also called Oakies

What were hoovervilles named after?

• The president that was blamed for the depression, Herbert Hoover.

• A state.

• A Important migrant worker named Herbert Hoover.

• The city that the first one was in hoovertown.

What day did the Market Crash?

• October 29, 1912

• October 20, 1929

• August 20, 1929

• October 29, 1929

The day the market crashed, it was called Black Thursday

• TRUE

• FALSE