The Great Depression

This image is an example of which of the following developments in the 1930s?

• Many Americans had lost jobs during the Great Depression

• Thousands of homes had been destroyed by the effects of the Dust Bowl

• Housing projects could not keep up with the demand for homes needed by the poor

• Preparations for World War II had created a shortage of building materials

President Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression was often criticized because it

• wasted money on new social programs

• caused widespread rioting and looting in major cities

• raised taxes on businesses and the wealthy

• failed to provide direct relief for the neediest persons

Which of the following actions taken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt most directly parallels this image?

• expanding the armed forces

• using police to evict "Hooverville" residents

• delivering food, water and medical supplies to residents

• providing jobs and home loans to American workers through his New Deal programs

Breadlines, Hoovervilles, and the Bonus Army were all direct results of

• housing shortages in the 1920s

• relief efforts of the New Deal

• improved agricultural technology

• unemployment during the Great Depression

A major cause of the stock market crash of 1929 was

• buying stocks on margin

• using stock certificates as currency

• restricting bank loans

• outlawing installment buying

The Great Depression was caused in part by

• increasing government support of big business

• the overuse of credit and installment buying

• high wages and low unemployment

• the scarcity (shortage) of farm products

The image would be most useful to historians as a source of information about which of the following?

• The Rust Belt

• Hoover Dam

• Dust Bowl

• Hoovervilles

The situation depicted in the image directly led to

• large number of people migrating west

• many people seeking economic opportunity on the Great Plains

• farm prosperity raising land values

• major dam building ended annual flooding

Which of the following books describes how the Dust Bowl of the 1930s affected farmers of the Great Plains?

• Silent Spring

• The Grapes of Wrath

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Jungle

During the 1930's the main goal of the Bonus Army was to pressure the Hoover administration to

• strengthen the nation's defense

• end the military draft

• bring American troops home from overseas

• support the early payment of money promised to veterans