Great Depression Hoover

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

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.

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

• Hoover flags

• Hoovervilles

• Hover tenements

One difference between the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Hoover was that Roosevelt was-

• more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems
• unwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobs
• able to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in office
• opposed to any type of government regulation of financial institutions

Overproduction and underconsumption factored into causing the Great Depression by

• causing falling prices on goods.

• forcing a decrease in mechanization.

• leading to more spending than saving.

• scaring farmers into growing fewer crops.

Which president was in office during the beginning of the Great Depression but didn’t do much to help Americans?

• Herbert Hoover

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

The nickname for the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was...

• stock market

• Black Tuesday

• credit

• stock

The Bonus Army was made up of ________.

• Civil War veterans

• World War I veterans

• Spanish American War veterans

• World War II veterans

Where could people go to get free or reduced-price food?

• Restaurants, right before closing

• City Hall

• Schools

• Soup Kitchens