Great Depression and Dust Bowl

What event took place in October 1929 that many people consider an important factor in causing the Great Depression?

• Stock Car Crash

• Stock Market Crash

• World War I

• World War II

By making poor investment choices and bad decisions, banking institutions were another factor in causing the Great Depression.

• True
• False

During the Great Depression, as many as ________ of all American workers were without a job.

• one-half (1/2)
• one-third (1/3)
• two-thirds (2/3)
• one-fourth (1/4)

What major events in U.S. history lasted throughout the 1930s?

• World War I and World War II
• Dust Bowl, Stock Market Crash
• Great Depression, Dust Bowl
• World War 1 and Great Depression

Who was President of the United States (POTUS) during the beginning of the Great Depression.

• Herbert Wilson
• Herbert Hoover
• Hoover Johnson
• Herbert Roosevelt

Many unfortunate people lived in shacks referred  to as _____________.

• Hoovervilles
• Shack Towns
• Poor People Places
• Dirty Towns

Many storeowners required cash for purchases instead of allowing people to use_________.

• stocks

• bonds

• credit

• bartering

Farmers went into __________ buying new machinery.

• debt
• credit
• depression
• consolidation

Severe ________ played an important part in the creation of the Dust Bowl.

• droughts
• rainfall
• tornados
• thunderstorms

Poor farming practices (techniques) caused soil __________.

• preservation
• erosion
• retention
• production