Great Depression / New Deal

A way of borrowing money from a bank or finance company so that you can have what you want and pay for it later

• Speculation 
• Buying on Credit 
• Buying on Margin 
• Overproduction 

This cause led many businesses to close, because they were producing more goods than consumers were willing to buy.

• Overproduction 
• Underconsumption 
• Buying on Credit 
• Stock Speculation 

On Tuesday, October 29th almost everyone who owned __________________tried to sell it.

• radios

• stock

• farms

• cash

____________________was the worst day in stock market history.

• Black Thursday

• Black Friday

• Black Tuesday

• Good Friday

A _________________is a time when there is very high unemployment & businesses are losing money.

• economic boom

• deployment

• depression

• compression

Who was president when the Dust Bowl began?

• Nixon
• Hoover
• Roosevelt
• Obama

Who was president when the Dust Bowl ended?

• Nixon
• Hoover
• Roosevelt
• Obama

The Dust Bowl took place in the

• Pacific Northwest
• Northeast
• Southern Great Plains
• Mid-Atlantic States

One reason soil could be blown away is because

• farmers didn't take care of their farms.
• winds were really strong.
• animals dug up the dirt with their hooves.
• so much planting eliminated grass that held it down.

United States President from 1929 to 1933

• Abraham Lincoln
• George Washington
• Andrew Johnson
• Herbert Hoover