Great Depression Ch 9

Mark all that are causes of the Great Depression

• Uneven distribution of wealth

• Loss of Exports

• Stock Market Crash

• Overproduction

• Bank Failures

System of buying and selling shares of a company with the hope of making a profit

• Stock Market

• speculation

• Bull Market

• Bear Market

A long period of rising stock prices

• Stock Market

• speculation

• Bull Market

• Bear Market

Betting the stock market will continue to climb

• Stock Market

• speculation

• Bull Market

• Bear Market

Buying stocks with a small down payment and having a stock broker pay the rest is called "Buying on ________"

October 29, 1929- Day with record number of sales in the market is commonly known as

• Black Tuesday

• Black Friday

• Red Friday

• Black Wednesday

First time government started to provide for the poor was by which ways

• Soup Kitchens

• Bread lines

• food stamps

• homeless shelters

During the Great Depression, the government moved away from _________ and started to be more active in helping poor.

• supplyside economics

• laissez-faire economics

• welfare capitialism

• The New Deal

Communities set up by homeless people with shacks and whatever materials they could find were commonly called?

• Hoovervilles

• Harding Hotels

• Coolige Cabins

• Roosevelt Resorts

Were wanderers across the country, “riding the rails”

• homeless

• hobos

• bozos

• transients