The Great Depression

Which of the following was not a new technology during the roaring 20's?

• automobiles

• I-phones

• voting machines

• washing machines

What creates demand for a stock?

• More investors

• Available products

• Higher potential profit

• Being unemployed

True or False: Wall Street is another name for the New York Stock Exchange

• True

• False

True or False: Black Thursday is when people rushed to sell stock and panicked

• True

• False

True or False: Roosevelt was blamed for high unemployment rates until he developed the New Deal

• True

• False

True or False: The Great Depression was caused by people quitting their jobs to become circus performers

• True

• False

Period of time beginning in 1929 and lasting through the 1930s where people lost jobs and didn’t have enough food; the economy took a downfall

• The Great Depression

• The Great Recession

• The New Deal

shantytowns, communities of makeshift shacks on unused or public land nicknamed after President Herbert Hoover

• Hoovervilles

• Rooseveltvilles

• margin call

drought-related conditions in the Great Plains states.

• Dust Bowl

• Acai Bowl

• Duster

helped Americans recover from the Depression

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• President Herbert Hoover

• Dust Bowl