Great Depression

Month and Day that Stock Market Crashed

• October 28, 1929
• October 29, 1928
• October 29, 1929
• October 29, 1939

Which was NOT a LONG-TERM cause of the Great Depression?

• Buying stock on margin
• Stock market crash (Black Tuesday)
• too much production and consumer spending
• Laisezz-faire economic policies

The Great Depression began in

• 1925
• 1929
• 1932
• 1940

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.

In the 1930's, people would line up at ____________ to get food.  These were normally run by charities.

• churches
• businesses
• soup kitchens
• work

Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?

• low worker productivity
• high income taxes
• decreasing tariff rates
• buying stocks on margin

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Great Depression?

• homelessness
• bank failures
• high tariffs
• struggling farmers