Great Depression Study Guide

Question 1

Hoovervile

Answer 1

AKA Shantytowns.People named poor places after Hoover. Usually run down area w/ a poor pop.

Question 2

Bonus Army

Answer 2

WWI vets. who were promised a bonus in 1945. Vets. wanted their payment now(1932). Vets. went to washington and camped out

Question 3

Dust Bowl

Answer 3

name given to south, great pains were severely damaged by droughts and dust storms during the 1930s. Caused by drought and new tech.

Question 4

Stock market

Answer 4

where stocks were sold to gain money. black thursday was when the stocks plummetted.

Question 5

Gone w/ the Wind

Answer 5

1939 drama depicting the civil war & destruction of the south

Question 6

Black Tuesday

Answer 6

stocks lost 10-15bil

Question 7

Hobo

Answer 7

people who looked for jobs traveling the rails

Question 8

how did buying on credit lead to the Great Depression

Answer 8

people couldn’t pay off their credit, since they were spending more than they had to spend

Question 9

which farming practices in the 1920s helped to cause the great depression

Answer 9

farmers overproduced their goods and overplowed

check this one

Question 10

where di many farmers, including the Okies, head for a better life?

Answer 10

Moved to CA in search of jobs.

Okies and ‘Arkies’ weren’t welcomed in the west

Question 11

What happened to banks that couldn’t meet the customers’ demands for money?

Answer 11

banks would fail and close and lose money.
-People were on defult loans( can’t pay back)
-Banks couldn’t cover their deposits b/c it was lent out to bad creditors
people lose their life savings b/c of this

Question 12

WHy did Steinbeck write “Grapes of Wrath”

Answer 12

protray a damily of okies escaping the dust bowl and effects of the depression, who were mistreated and negleected.
Spread the word of a common, untold story

Question 13

what happened to customers’ savings when banks went broke in the 1920s

Answer 13

people lost all of their money, life savings

Question 14

how did radio and movies help people get through the great depression

Answer 14

entertainment provided a temp “get away”, or safe haven from the effects of the depression. Jobs, if they could find them

Question 15

Describe Hoover’s “trickle down” economic policy

Answer 15

• asked businesses not to cut wages or production
• wanted city and state gov. to fund building projects
• set up Farm Board to lend money to farmers to form co-ops and sell crops as a group

Question 16

how did people survive

Answer 16

entertainment, staying together as a fam, jobs if they were available, escapism

Question 17

why did the stock market crash

Answer 17

buying on margin: Buying stock by paying small portion of what the stock is worth

Question 18

how did the stock market crash, dust bowl, and farm overproduction work together to cause the great depression

Answer 18

stock market-people lost all of their money,life savings, putting many in poverty
dust bowl- destroyed crops and forced people to move west for jobs, causing many to lack food, money, and housing
farm overproduction- farmers began to be laid off, workers couldn’t buy goods, farmers couldn’t survive off of low prices

Question 19

what effect did the great depression have on immigration

Answer 19

immigration slowed to a halt

Question 20

what effect did the Great Depresssion have on civil rights of minorites?

Answer 20

further suppressed minorities as they were the first to be laid off of their jobs so their positions could be given to whites