Great Depression and New Deal

When did the Stock Market crash?

• September 29, 1931
• August 29, 1991
• October 29, 1929

What is another name for the Stock Market Crash?

• Taco Tuesday
• Black Tuesday
• Throwback Thursday

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

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• William McKinley

____________ is spending more money than you have.

• Debt

• Saving

• tariffs

• New Deal

A series of dust storms on the Great Plains from 1930-1939 is called the _________________.

• Dust Plains

• Dust depression

• Dust Bowl

• Dust area

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.

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

Identify some reasons behind the downfall of the US economy

• overproduction of consumer goods and a gradual decrease in their demands

• Purchase of goods and homes on a credit system and loans

• Overproduction of agricultural goods creating a glut

• Intense speculation in purchase and sale of stocks.

The Depression affected the people in different ways

• factories shut down and they lost their jobs

• With almost no cash in hand they could not repay loans

• houses were mortgaged or sold

• Farmers could not harvest their crops and allowed them to rot

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

• Priest Palace
• Soup and Salad Bowls
• Bread Lines

• Goodwill