Agriculture And Industry - The Great Depression

Question 1

How much of the urban workforce lost their jobs!

Answer 1

16% in 1931

25% in 1933

Question 2

How much did automobile and electrics sales fall by

Answer 2

2/3

Question 3

How much did wages fall by?

Answer 3

32%

Question 4

What happened to General Electrics income and employees?

Answer 4

Income of $60.5 million and 88,000 employees in 1930

Income of $14.1 million and 42,000 employees in 1932

Question 5

How much did the number of people employed in textiles drop?

Answer 5

1923-1933: drop by 90,000

Question 6

When did demand begin to drop for consumer goods?

Answer 6

1927 - by then most who could afford consumer goods had bought them

Question 7

What was farmers average wage in the 1920s?

Answer 7

$273 per year

$750 per year national average

Question 8

What did prices fall by 1919-21?

Answer 8

1919 - $2.19 per bushel of wheat

1922 - 90c per bushel of wheat

Question 9

What was an example of a natural disaster?

Answer 9

1927 Mississippi River Flood

Question 10

What did the Oklahoma wheat yield drop to?

Answer 10

$7000 in 1933 (was usually $1 million)

Question 11

How many farms were foreclosed?

Answer 11

3,500 out of 5280

Question 12

How much did the value of farmland drop?

Answer 12

30% 1920-29

Question 13

How many working days were lost to strikes in 1931?

Answer 13

2.2 million