Great Depression

 Define The Great Depression

• Loan given to help you buy items you normally cannot buy on your own.
• homeless person who travels looking for work.
• The time in American history when the U.S. was at it's lowest point.

Define Black Tuesday

• Group of government programs created to try and end the Great Depression.
• October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed. It was the official start of the Great Depression
• Minimal improvement in economy. FDR urged congress to pass additional programs.

Which of the following would MOST contribute to people living beyond their means?

• Credit
• Rich People
• Goverment
• The Stock Market

What is a soup kitchen?

• place where food is offered to hungry people for free or low cost

• area of homes built out of scraps of wood and pieces of cardboard

• government program that built roads, parks, and bridges

• period of severe drought and high winds

Which of the following would NOT be a characteristic of the Great Depression?

• High Unemployment

• Low levels of production

• increasing income

• lack of confidence in banks

When did the Stock Market crash?

• October 31, 1929
• September 29, 1931
• August 29, 1991
• October 29, 1929

Who was elected president because he had a plan to pull America out of the Great Depression?

• William McKinley
• Woodrow Wilson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Charities that provided bread and soup to homeless and jobless people during the Depression were called _______?

• Priest Palace
• Soup and Salad Bowls
• Soup Kitchens
• Goodwill

People who could no longer afford their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they built in public parks. What were these shacks called?

• Shantyshacks
• Town Homes
• Tenement Housing
• Hoovervilles

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Unemployment is the number of people without.....

• money

• children

• jobs

• food