Great Depression

A major environmental crisis of the 1930's was known as

• the Dust Bowl.

• the Grapes of Wrath.

• Black Tuesday.

• the Great Crash.

In 1933, the Twenty-First Amendment brought an end to

• Prohibition.

• stock speculation.

• the Depression.

• the U.S. Communist Party.

What was one effect of the wage cuts and unemployment of the 1930's?

• The divorce rate went up.

• Banks forgave thousands of farm mortgages.

• Hoovervilles sprang up in the nation's cities.

• Most industries gave top jobs to married women.

Not long after Black Tuesday, the stock market crash was affecting

• only those who had invested heavily in stocks.

• wealthy industrialists almost exclusively.

• all of Americans.

• mainly stockbrokers and banks.

The Great Crash led to

• increased factory production.

• a brief period of rising profits.

• higher farm prices.

• unemployment for millions of workers.

After the Crash, thousands of American banks closed, because they

• had to print new money.

• could not return the money people put in the bank.

• had invested in European banks.

• charged too high an interest rate.

The rise in homelessness mainly resulted from

• increased immigration.

• high interest rates.

• a decline in housing construction.

• workers being laid off.

During the Depression working women were

• embarrassed to be working.

• respected for being family providers.

• paid extra if they got married.

• accused of taking jobs away from men.

During the Depression, many members of minority groups

• headed south to find factory work.

• won many civil rights battles.

• took jobs away from white workers.

• lost their low-paying jobs to whites.

What did some people agree to do when a foreclosed farm was auctioned?

• hold an auction party

• try to buy and run the farm

• keep bids low

• give the original owners free seeds