6.2 Americans Suffer

Refugees from the Dust Bowl.

• Hoover

• Bonus Army

• Okies

• tenant farmers

President when the stock market crashed.

• Hoover

• Roosevelt

• Coolidge

• Truman

World War I veterans who marched

on Washington, D.C.

• Okies

• repatriation

• Black Tuesday

• Bonus Army

General who ordered federal troops to

attack protestors with tear gas

• Grant

• MacArthur

• Lee

• Eisenhower

The periodic growth and contraction of the

economy.

• repatriation

• supply

• the business cycle

• demand

the event of the stock market crash

• Black Monday

• Medieval Day

• repatriation

• Black Tuesday

Both African Americans and Mexican Americans had an especially

difficult time during the Great Depression because they

• had little community and family support.

• faced discrimination when competing for jobs.

• were forced to move to northern cities to find work.

Why did volunteerism fail?

• President Hoover did not support the policy.

• Businesses and citizens acted in their own best interests.

• The federal government took control of local and state relief efforts.

The RFC lent money to banks so that

• depositors could withdraw all of their savings.

• investors could engage in more stock speculation.

• banks could lend money to businesses to hire workers and increase

  production.

Why did the Bonus Army march on Washington, D.C.?

• Congress refused to pay veterans their bonuses.

• General MacArthur attacked protestors demanding their bonuses.

• President Hoover vetoed a bill providing for early payment of bonuses.