TERM: Republican winner of 1928, president of 1st part of Great Depression

TERM: Democratic loser of 1928 presidential election

TERM: the most widely used way to measure the health of the stock market.

TERM: a share of ownership in a company

TERM: The day the stock market crashed

Term: stock prices had risen above their actual value

TERM: pay a portion for stock and the rest on credit

TERM: Wealthy people would drive up the stock price and then sell their shares leaving the rest of the investors broke

TERM: a period when the U.S. economy was in severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed.

TERM: Established the highest protective tariff in US history, worsening the depression in America and abroad.

TERM: an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move

TERM: people from the Dust Bowl region, moved west to find new jobs.

TERM: homeless men wandered the streets looking for jobs.

TERM: the giving of money or food by the government directly to the needy people.

TERM: people can succeed on their own efforts.

TERM: shanty towns during the Great Depression

TERM: Lowered home mortgage rates and allowed farmers to refinance their loans and avoid foreclosure.

TERM: getting rid of the current mortgage rate and get a new mortgage payment with a lower interest rate

TERM: It gave $2 billion to companies, insurance companies and banks to provide emergency financing from the national treasury

TERM: it would allow WWI veterans their bonus early

Term: this was made up of WW1 veterans and their families who marched on Washington

The name of the specific area that the Dust Bowl was so devasting for was

All of the following were long-term causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT:

During the Depression, what was the overall unemployment rate in the US?

All of the following were reasons the unemployment rate was higher for African Americans EXCEPT

American industries first began to show signs of economic troubles after 1929.

In showing disgust with the president, the people called the Shantytowns...

All of the following were causes of the Dust Bowl EXCEPT:

By November 1929, ______________ was lost by the Stock Market.

All of the following were reasons why there was a Farm Crisis in the 1920s EXCEPT:

The federal government gave money and ran soup kitchens and breadlines at the beginning of the Depression.

All of the following were positive effects of the Depression EXCEPT:

All of the following were short-term effects of the Great Depression EXCEPT:

All of the following were psychological effects of the Great Depression EXCEPT:

What river was the Boulder/Hoover Dam built on?

In what year did the Great Depression start?

In what year did the Great Depression end?

All of the following were negative long-term effects of the Great Depression EXCEPT

Who was president when the stock market crashed?

Who was elected president in 1932 who will have new ideas on how to fix our economy?

Within a few years, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff led to

During the mid-term elections of 1930, to show their disgust with Hoover, the people voted

The bill that said the govt would buy farm surpluses and sell them on the world market was the

Following the stock market crash, President Hoover was criticized for

Why was the railroad industry not as profitable as it had been the decades before?

In rural life, which of the following increased during the 1920s?

How much money was lost on the "day the Stock Market crashed"?

All of the following were industries that used to make millions and in the 1920s they were barely making a profit EXCEPT:

The philosophy of "Rugged Individualism" to end the depression was

Herbert Hoover was a firm believer in direct relief.

Newspapers were

Hoover Flags were

Teenagers who left home to alleviate stress on their parents to go find work were known as

All of the following were ways for people who "did not lose it all, but still sacrificed during the depression" EXCEPT:

During the Depression, many white Americans wanted to ____________ Latin Americans as they claimed the stole "American jobs."

All of the following were effects the depression had on children EXCEPT:

The ironic situation about food during the Great Depression is that cities had too much food, but rural areas were starving.

All of the following were weapons the US military used on the Bonus Army EXCEPT:

The Bonus Army wanted their bonuses early.

The aim of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act was to

The purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was to

All of the following were reasons why the Boulder/Hoover Dam were built EXCEPT: