The Great Depression

Which was NOT a LONG-TERM cause of the Great Depression?

• Buying stock on margin

• Stock market crash (Black Tuesday)

• too much production and consumer spending

• Laisezz-faire economic policies

The Great Depression began in

• 1925

• 1929

• 1932

• 1940

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.

• Unemployment decreased gradually.

• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.

• Hoover was re-elected as president.

Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

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

• Hoovervilles

• Okies

• Bonus Army Bases

• Rooseveltowns

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Great Depression?

• homelessness

• bank failures

• high tariffs

• struggling farmers

What natural disaster of the 1930s added insult to injury?

• Flooding along the Mississippi River

• The Dust Bowl

• Tornadoes called the Helen Hunt Twisters

• Hurricanes along the Gulf Coast

What program did Franklin Roosevelt create in order to help Americans during the Great depression?

• Roosevelts boys

• Newer Deal

• New Deal

• FDR's relief

What was the New Deal?

• A relief program 

• A weapons project

• A Scam

• A Tax

How did "bank runs" impact the American people during the Great Depression?

• Banks eventually ran out of money to loan, and people's life savings were gone.

• Banks made loans throughout the Great Depression, helping people pays bills until they could find work.

• Banks were able to people's deposits safe, but they could not loan out any more money.

• Banks were not at all involved in the Great Depression because people did not use them.