Depression Quiz

What is called when the prices of stocks are expected to rise?

• Bull Market

• Bear Market

• Burt Market

• Inflation

In calling shantytowns "Hoovervilles," people conveyed their

• Patriotism

• Trust in Hoover

• Disgust in Hoover

• Grudging respect for Hoover

Which of the following was not an effect of the Great Depression?

• Many children had a poor diet or were starving.

• Many families lost their homes

• Many men became unemployed

• Many people became farmers.

Who made up the Bonus Army that marched on Washington?

• World War I veterans and their families

• Farmers forced off their lands by the dust storm

• Unemployed factory workers

• Business and labor leaders.

Which candidates ran for president in 1932?

• Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover

• Calvin Coolidge and Franklin C. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith

• Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Farmers were especially hard-hit by the Depression

• Because they had huge debts from purchasing machines and land

• since low crop prices wiped out any profits

• During the great depression the dustbowl storms also ruined crops.

• All of the above

Who said to America, “...the only thing we have to fear is fear itself?”

• Herbert Hoover

• Woodrow Wilson

• Barrack Obama

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

After the stock market crash, how did President Hoover try to help the economy?

• By closing banks

• by lowering taxes

• by funding handouts of food and clothing.

• By asking businesses to not lay off employees and to not lower their pay.

Herbert Hoover's approach to the Depression economy was based on a belief in

• Voluntary Cooperation, If people put money into the system, it'll work again.

• Separation of Church and State

• The Golden Rule

• Direct Government Relief.

During the Great Depression, the overall unemployment rate was about

• 100 percent

• 75 percent

• 25 percent

• 10 percent