The Great Depression and New Deal

nativism

• the manger scene displayed at Christmas

• the idea that people born in the United States were superior to immigrants

• the idea that people born in other countries are superior to citizens native to the US

• dressing like native people

a share in the ownership of a company

• stock

• stock exchange

• speculation

• investor

an organized system for buying and selling stocks

• stock

• stock exchange

• speculation

• investor

thinking about the possibility of making a profit in a short amount of time by buying and selling stocks

• stock

• stock exchange

• speculation

• investor

a person who buys stocks

• stock

• stock exchange

• speculation

• investor

The day the stock market crashed in 1929 is known as

• Purple Monday

• Black Friday

• Pink Wednesday

• Black Tuesday

projects, such as the construction of highways, parks, and libraries, to create new jobs

• public works

• traffic control

• employment

• teaching opportunities

Choose all of the following that were issues during the Great Depression of the 1930s...

• growing gap between the rich and poor

• nearly 75% of American families were living in, or near, poverty

• many small banks failed

• factories closed and unemployment rose worldwide

• many Americans farmers had borrowed money to buy new land and equipment and could not pay their debts

What does "boom and crash" mean?

• boom = success

  crash = loss

• boom = loss

  crash = success

Beginning of the panic selling; 13 million shares sold

• Black Tuesday
• Black Thursday
• Black Friday
• Black Sunday