Great Depression

What is another name for the Stock Market Crash?

• Black Friday
• Taco Tuesday
• Black Tuesday
• Throwback Thursday

Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed and Depression began?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• William McKinley

Charities that provided bread and soup to homeless and jobless people during the Depression were called _______?

• Priest Palace
• Soup and Salad Bowls
• Soup Kitchens
• Goodwill

People who could no longer afford their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they built in public parks. What were these shacks called?

• Shantyshacks
• Town Homes
• Tenement Housing
• Hoovervilles

Who was most directly affected by the Dust Bowl?

• farmers

• investors

• industrial workers

• WWI Veterans

Veterans of this conflict were owed bonus pay for their service.

• World War I

• World War II

• Gulf War

• Civil War

Which of the following is NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

• Overproduction and underconsumption

• High tariffs restricting trade

• buying stocks on the margin

• high income taxes

What was President Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression?

• He believed "rugged individualism" would solve the economy

• He created mass welfare

• He increased infrastructure to create jobs

• He violated his policy of laissez-faire

Why did many midwestern farmers migrate from the Great Plains to California?

• There was no unemployment on the West Coast

• California was experiencing a gold rush

• The Dust Bowl pushed farmers out of the Great Plains

• The Stock Market crash led farmers to lose their homes on the Great Plains

The reason stock prices rose before the Great Depression

• Deficit Spending

• Buying on Margin

• Federal Reserve System

• Hawley-Smoot Tariff