Great Depression Vocabulary

What was the Roaring 20s?

• time of booming business

• lots of new entertainment

• new technologies

• all of the above

Poverty is _______.

• the inability to meet basic needs

• being very poor

• possibly homeless

• all of these

To invest means to put ________ into something like a company.

Being employed means a person has a ______.

Being unemployed means a person is ________ a job.

What is the stock exchange?

• a place where you get cows or pigs

• a special market where shares are bought and sold

• a place to get video games

• a place to buy a cell phone

THe Stock Market Crash was ________.

• the beginning of the Great Depression

• a plunge in the stock prices

• happened on Black Tuesday

• all of the above

Black Tuesday was the beginning of ___ _____ __________.

What is true of Herbert Hoover?

• He was President of the US during the Great Depression.

• He invented the Hoover vacuum.

• He ignored the problem of lack of jobs and homes.

• He gave all the homeless a chicken in each pot.

A hoover hotel was a _____ _____ where the homeless slept overnight.