Chapter 11- The Great Depression

Question 1

Collapse

Answer 1

To fall down or give in

Question 2

Alfred E. Smith

Answer 2

Four time governor of New York. He was the first catholic to win a major party’s nomination for president

Question 3

Stock market

Answer 3

A place where stock is sold and bought

Question 4

Bull market

Answer 4

A market where share prices are rising and it encourages buying.

Question 5

Margin

Answer 5

Making only a small cash down payment. As low as 10% of the price.
The edge or border of something

Question 6

Margin call

Answer 6

Demanding the investor to repay the loan at once

Question 7

Speculation

Answer 7

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.

Question 8

Black Tuesday

Answer 8

The day when the prices took the steepest dive. The Wall Street Crash and the Stock Market Crash of 1929

Question 9

Sum

Answer 9

A particular amount of money

Question 10

Bank run

Answer 10

Takes place when many depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time, usually because the bank is going to collapse.

Question 11

Installment

Answer 11

A sum of money due as one of several equal payments for something, spread over an agreed period of time: “paid in installments”.

Question 12

Harley Smoot tariff

Answer 12

Raised the average tariff rate to the highest level in American history

Question 13

Suspended

Answer 13

Temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect

Question 14

Bailiffs

Answer 14

Court officers

Question 15

Hobos

Answer 15

Wanderer that didn’t have a permanent home. They secretly rode in boxcars traveling place to place.

Question 16

Dust bowl

Answer 16

An area where vegetation has been lost and soil eroded, esp. as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.

Question 17

Walt Disney

Answer 17

United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

Question 18

Colleagues

Answer 18

A person with whom one works, esp. in a profession or business.

Question 19

Soap operas

Answer 19

A television or radio drama series dealing typically with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters.

Question 20

John Steinbeck

Answer 20

United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers

Question 21

William Faulkner

Answer 21

United States novelist who wrote about people in the southern United States

Question 22

Grant Wood

Answer 22

United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest

Question 23

Series

Answer 23

A number of things, events, or people of a similar kind or related nature coming one after another

Question 24

Public works

Answer 24

The work of building such things as roads, schools, and reservoirs, carried out by the government for the community.

Question 25

Communities

Answer 25

A group of people living together in one place

Question 26

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Answer 26

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was an independent agency of the US government

Question 27

Relief

Answer 27

Money given directly to impoverished families

Question 28

Force closed

Answer 28

Take possession of a mortgaged property as a result of someone’s failure to keep up their mortgage payments.

Question 29

Bonus Army

Answer 29

The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans and their families.