Great Depression- Causes and Impact

October 29th, 1929

• Black Monday
• Black Tuesday
• Black Wednesday
• Black Friday

The Dust Bowl devastated what part of the U.S. during the Great Depression?

• West Coast
• New England
• Deep South
• Great Plains

Buying stock without knowing the risks, assuming it will just go up is known as ________.

• speculation
• buying on margin
• market capitalization
• hammering the market

Who are these people?

• hoboes
• immigrants
• tourists
• carpet baggers

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This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest 

• Tornados
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday 
• Hurricanes

When people went to the bank to withdraw their money and the banks had no money was known as the 

• Bank Crisis 
• Black Tuesday
• Stock Market Crash
• New Deal 

The collection of markets and exchange where the issuing and trading of equities, bonds and other sorts of securities takes place.

• Margin
• New Deal
• Deficit Spending 
• Stock Market 

A time in America following the roaring 20's where America experience rising unemployment that did not end until the onset of World War II. 

• New Deal
• Roaring 20's
• Great Depression
• Cold War 

What percentage of Americans were unemployed in 1933?

• 25%
• 35%
• 50%
• 2%

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.