Groups Affected by the Great Depression

Question 1

What group was hit hardest?

Answer 1

People in agriculture

Question 2

Why did banks try to seize farmers’ homes?

Answer 2

They were unable to pay mortgages

Question 3

What happened when sheriffs came to take the land of farmers?

Answer 3

They were often met with angry farmers with pitchforks and hangmans’ nooses

Question 4

What did farmers barricade to protect themselves?

Answer 4

Highways

Question 5

How many farmers were evicted?

Answer 5

1 in 20

Question 6

What were farmers who left Oklahoma labelled?

Answer 6

Okies

Question 7

Where did most farmers go?

Answer 7

California down Route 66

Question 8

What did over-farmed land in the central states turn into?

Answer 8

Dustbowls

Question 9

What were dustbowls?

Answer 9

Infertile land that was useless for farming

Question 10

Why were farmers forced to slaughter livestock?

Answer 10

The price for animals was lower than the cost of transporting them to market

Question 11

What did total farm income fall to?

Answer 11

From $13 billion to $5 billion

Question 12

What % did industrial and farm production fall by?

Answer 12

40%

Question 13

What % did wages fall by?

Answer 13

60%

Question 14

How many people were being made unemployed each day?

Answer 14

12,000

Question 15

What did some men do to get temporary employment as firefighters?

Answer 15

Set fire to forests

Question 16

Where did the homeless go at night?

Answer 16

Parks like Central Park

Question 17

What were Hoovervilles?

Answer 17

Shantytowns were people were forced to live

Question 18

What were Hoover blankets?

Answer 18

Newspapers the homeless slept under

Question 19

Where did people go to try and scrape together a meal from leftovers?

Answer 19

Rubbish tips

Question 20

How many people were admitted to hospital in 1931 from malnutrition or starvation?

Answer 20

238

Question 21

How many of the 238 people admitted to hospital for malnutrition or starvation died?

Answer 21

45

Question 22

Why did the rich lose the most?

Answer 22

They had invested the most

Question 23

How much did Rockefeller lose?

Answer 23

$160 million

Question 24

How much did Winston Churchill lose?

Answer 24

$500,000

Question 25

Why did investors go bankrupt?

Answer 25

They were unable to pay back loans to the banks and insurance companies

Question 26

Why did banks go bankrupt?

Answer 26

They had bought shares

Question 27

What did Hoover promise?

Answer 27

“Prosperity is just around the corner”

Question 28

What did Hoover cut to stimulate buying?

Answer 28

Taxes

Question 29

Why did businessmen go bankrupt?

Answer 29

They had taken out huge loans to expand their businesses but couldn’t afford to pay back loans after the Wall Street Crash

Question 30

When did the Bank of USA in New York fail?

Answer 30

December 1930

Question 31

How many investors did the Bank of USA have when it went bankrupt in December 1930?

Answer 31

400,000

Question 32

How many banks closed during the depression?

Answer 32

10,000

Question 33

How much was withdrawn and stored at home?

Answer 33

$1 billion

Question 34

Why did people withdraw money and store it at home?

Answer 34

Investors no longer trusted banks that had lost their money

Question 35

What did businesses cut?

Answer 35

Production, employment of workers, wages

Question 36

How many companies went bankrupt?

Answer 36

100,000

Question 37

What did US international trade fall from?

Answer 37

$10 billion to $3 billion

Question 38

How many committed suicide in one year?

Answer 38

23,000