Great Depression and Dust Bowl

In the 1920s there was an over use of bank credit and what?

• loans

• checkbooks

• balances

Everyone rushed to sell stocks at one time causing the what of 1929?

• Civil War

• Stock Market Crash

• Revolutionary War

What was the Great Depression?

• A period of economic success and an improving economy

• The worst economic catastrophe in U.S. history

• A period of time that witnessed American involvement in violent foreign wars

• A hotly contested presidential election

During the Great Depression, ______.

• many Americans lost their jobs

• many Americans had little money

• many farmers lost their land to drought

• a, b, and c

What forced banks to close during the Great Depression?

• Huge amounts of inflation

• War in Europe

• Investors unable to pay loans and everyone trying to withdraw their money at the same time.

• Not enough people invested in the Stock Market

Which TWO answers best describe President Herbert Hoover's presidency during the Great Depression?

• A very hands-on government

• Mostly hands-off government

• Largely unable to better economic conditions

• Created many programs to help the poor.

Which TWO answers best describe Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency during the Great Depression?

• Very active hands-on gov't with business

• Mostly hands-off gov't with business

• Created many Programs that helped people.

• Created a tariff that hurt American economy

Homeless people built shacks towns out of any materials they could find. These were known as...

• Hoover flags

• Hoovervilles

• Hover tenements

The Dust Bowl took place in the

• The Costal Plains

• The Great Plains

• California

• South Texas

True or False: One of the reasons the farmers had problems during the depression was that the land had been plowed up to provide food to Europe during the war and was not being farmed after the war ended.

• True

• False