Great Depression

Question 1

process of betting on stock market

Answer 1

speculation

Question 2

buying stock on credit

Answer 2

margin

Question 3

requesting the rest of your money

Answer 3

margin call

Question 4

became president in 1928

Answer 4

Hoover

Question 5

secretary of commerce and head of food administration

Answer 5

hoover

Question 6

demands by bank depositors or customers to withdraw money

Answer 6

bank run

Question 7

how many banks closed

Answer 7

one in four

Question 8

system for buying and selling shares

Answer 8

stock market

Question 9

three causes of depression

Answer 9

bad distribution of income, loss of export sales, mistakes by fed reserve

Question 10

major factor of depression

Answer 10

overproduction

Question 11

period of rising stocks

Answer 11

bull market

Question 12

price of stocks falling

Answer 12

bear market

Question 13

how many people owned stocks

Answer 13

10%

Question 14

when stock took steep dive

Answer 14

black Thursday black tuesday

Question 15

measure of value of leading industrial companies

Answer 15

industrial index

Question 16

raised average tariff rate to highest in american history

Answer 16

hawley smoot tariff

Question 17

who kept the rates low through out the 20s

Answer 17

federal reserve board

Question 18

sustained long term down turn in economic activity

Answer 18

depression

Question 19

slowdown in economic activity

Answer 19

recession

Question 20

evicted people built shantytowns or

Answer 20

hoovervilles

Question 21

in search for better life people did what

Answer 21

riding the rails

Question 22

hoboes did what

Answer 22

get into box cars

Question 23

sending immigrants to home country

Answer 23

repatriation drives

Question 24

stretched from dakota to texas

Answer 24

dust bowl

Question 25

dust storms were also called

Answer 25

black blizzards or black rollers

Question 26

largest migration in US history

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dust bowl exodus

Question 27

stienbeck books

Answer 27

mice of men and grapes of wrath

Question 28

who wrote folk music based on experiences

Answer 28

guthrie

Question 29

how many dust storms happened in a decade

Answer 29

50

Question 30

migrants from oklahoma were called

Answer 30

okies

Question 31

film that walt disney wrote

Answer 31

snow white and the seven dwarfs

Question 32

first movie in color that mgm produced

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wizard of oz

Question 33

what other movie was created in 1939

Answer 33

gone with the wind

Question 34

nick name of tv dramas

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soap opras

Question 35

1936 time magazine produced

Answer 35

life was a photojournalism

Question 36

Dorothea Lange took what photo

Answer 36

Migrant Mother

Question 37

artist from regionalist school

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Benton and wood

Question 38

woods best painting

Answer 38

american gothic

Question 39

the RFC lent how much money

Answer 39

238 million

Question 40

should bring us out of the depression

Answer 40

rugged indivudalism

Question 41

act called for !.5 million for works and 300 million in loans to states

Answer 41

emergency relief and construction act

Question 42

hunger marches were organized by

Answer 42

american communist party

Question 43

who would introduce a bill that would authorize early payment of these bonuses

Answer 43

patman

Question 44

hundreds of oregon veterans began marching to washington DC to lobby for passage of the legislation

Answer 44

bonus army

Question 45

the secretary of war asked permission to send in the military under command of

Answer 45

MacAuthur

Question 46

who ignored orders by president to leave the camps alone

Answer 46

MacAuthur

Question 47

first federal agency created to help the economy in peacetime

Answer 47

RFC