Causes of the Great Depression

Name for when companies more product than they can sell, leading to lower prices and profits.

• Underconsumption

• Overproduction

• Regulations

• Speculation

Environmental disaster that hit farmers on the great plains; Large dust storms made it impossible to farm:

• Great Migration

• 1930s Wind Storms

• Dust Bowl

• The Great Dust Wall

Won the election of 1932 & began his New Deal programs to try & solve the problems of the Great Depression:

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Calvin Coolidge

Who was most directly affected by the Dust Bowl?

• farmers

• investors

• industrial workers

• WWI Veterans

This person was blamed for not helping struggling Americans during the beginning of the Depression.

• Franklin D Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Calvin Coolidge

• Herbert Hoover

What happened during the "run on banks" after the stock market crash in 1929?

• People rushed to withdraw their money and caused banks to close

• People went and rushed to deposit money in the banks

• People went and started to buy stocks in the banks

• People went to protest that the banks wouldn't loan them money

What phrase describes Hoover's Republican philosophy towards fixing the Great Depression

• Laissez Faire

• Hands On

• Government Intervention

• Government Bail Out

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

When tariffs are added to imported products, what happens to international trade?

• It becomes a new program.
• It stays the same.
• It grows very well.
• It is discouraged.

What did farmers do after WWI that caused many of them to lose their farms?

• They cut back on farm production.
• They sold their farms.
• They went off to war.
• They continued to overproduce.