23 The Great Depression

Question 0

1930

Answer 0

1. Hawley-Smoot Tariff

2. Drought begins in Dust Bowl

Question 1

1929

Answer 1

1. Stock market crash; Great Depression begins

2. Agricultural Marketing Act

Question 2

1931

Answer 2

Scottsboro defendants arrested

Question 3

1932

Answer 3

1. Reconstruction Finance Corporation established
2. Bonus Army in Washington
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president

Question 4

1934

Answer 4

Southern Tenant Farmers Union organized

Question 5

1935

Answer 5

American Communist Party proclaims Popular Front

Question 6

1936

Answer 6

Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind

Question 7

1939

Answer 7

Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

Question 8

1940

Answer 8

Wright’s Native Son