Human Effects Of The Depression

Question 0

What did people who had a job and income benefit from

Answer 0

The lower prices

Question 1

Which industries continued to prosper during the Depression?

Answer 1

Electronics, aviation and the film industry

Question 2

What percentage was unemployment at in 1933

Answer 2

25%

Question 3

What was happening in the industrial cities in the north?

Answer 3

The rate of unemployment was even higher

Factories and businesses cut down on production or shut down completely

Question 4

How much of the labour force was unemployed in Chicago in 1933

Answer 4

Half the labour force

Question 5

How many black people of working age were unemployed in Charleston in 1931

Answer 5

70%

Blacks were especially hard hit

Question 6

How many blacks in Memphis were unemployed in 1931

Answer 6

75%

Question 7

What did hundreds and thousands of Americans do to try and find work

Answer 7

Took to the roads and travelled as hobos from place to place

Question 8

What were some serious effects of the Great Depression on Americans? (7 please) 1929-32

Answer 8

1) fall in exports, production, sales, wages
2) Banks bankrupted = run on banks/banking crisis
3) farmers bankrupt = drift to Cali
4) unemp - ESP. North and black community = hobos and beggars
5) homelessness = Hoovervilles
6) charity = soup kitchens and breadlines
7) bonus army, riots, demonstrations

Question 9

What was a non so serious effect of Great Depression on Americans? 1929-32

Answer 9

Not everyone suffered

‘New industries’ prospered, people with steady wages benefitted from falling prices

Question 10

When Americans became unemployed what happened (help)

Answer 10

There were no dole parents to help them

Question 11

Why did homeless people have to sell possessions? (Two)

Answer 11

To pay back loans or credit taken out during the good years

Question 12

What happened to homeless people who could not meet their mortgage payments

Answer 12

Their house was repossessed

Question 13

How many Americans lost their homes in 1932 alone?

Answer 13

250,000

Question 14

Where did homeless people sleep when they were on the streets

Answer 14

Park benches or bus shelters

Question 15

What extremes did homeless people go to?

Answer 15

They deliberately got themselves arrested so they could spend the night in jail

Question 16

What were Hoovervilles made up of and where did people build them mostly?

Answer 16

Hoovervilles from whatever they could find - corrugated iron, scrap metal, old wood.

Many built on waste grounds

Question 17

Why did the shelters become called Hoovervilles

Answer 17

Because it was an insult to the president, Herbert Hoover, who had a policy of ‘rugged individualism’ which meant he did not help the people - ‘every man for himself’

Question 18

When were the ww1 soldiers promised to get their ‘bonus’ (pension)

Answer 18

1945

Question 19

When did many war veterans start asking the government to pay the bonuses up front?

Answer 19

1932

Question 20

How many veterans went to Washington to protest to the government

Answer 20

20,000

Question 21

What did the bonus army do opposite the White House

Answer 21

They set up a Hooverville

Question 22

Who did Hoover call in to deal with the veterans (two forces)

Answer 22

Police, then army

Question 23

How did troops clear out the Bonus Army from the camp? (What they did and what they did after)

Answer 23

Used tanks and tear gas to clear out

Set fire to tents and shelters

Question 24

How many veterans were killed and injured from the violent government clear out?

Answer 24

Two died Nearly a thousand others injured

Question 25

What was the result of hoover's actions?

Answer 25

He became even more unpopular

Question 26

What did the USA not have, unlike Britain, in terms of help

Answer 26

They did not have a social security system which would pay unemployment benefit to the jobless

Question 27

What did some towns and cities do in terms of help (charity) and what did this provide

Answer 27

Set up their own public relief programmes which provided temp homes, food, clothes and jobs

Question 28

Give an example of a charity which ran private charities

Answer 28

The salvation army

Question 29

Who was a wealthy individual who gave help to the unemployed and poor? And where did this person do it

Answer 29

Al Capone provided food in Chicago

Question 30

What did charities set up for hunger relief (3)

Answer 30

Soup kitchens Bread kitchens Cheap food centres

Question 31

What were breadlines

Answer 31

Long lines of men and women queuing for free bread and soup

Question 32

What was a famous song that summed up the mood of Americans during the depression?

Answer 32

'Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?'

Question 33

What was a result of unemployment in the towns on farmers?

Answer 33

They sold less of their produce

Question 34

What was a result of farm produce falling so much

Answer 34

It was nonprofitable to harvest crops. | Wheat was left to rot in the fields and farmers went bankrupt

Question 35

What was another problem that hit some farmers in the 1930s

Answer 35

The dust bowl

Question 36

During the First World War what did some states in the south and the midwest such as (give 2) resulted in farmers moving from which type of farming to watch type of farming

Answer 36

Oklahoma and Kansas Moved from cattle farming to growing crops and this was the demand at the time

Question 37

What was the result of crop growing being continued in the 1920s

Answer 37

The land was being over farmed, and the soil was damaged

Question 38

When did the drought hit America

Answer 38

In the years after the 1930s

Question 39

How did land become like a desert

Answer 39

Strong winds and low rainfall turned the topsoil into dust

Question 40

What was the result of the dustbowl

Answer 40

Thousand and farmers were ruined. Left with no choice but to abandon farms and look for work elsewhere. Many drifted to California-fruit farms --> migrant workers

Question 41

When was the Empire State building opened

Answer 41

1931

Question 42

When was the Hoover Dam opened

Answer 42

1936

Question 43

When was the golden gate bridge opened

Answer 43

1937

Question 44

What three new products were introduced in 1938

Answer 44

Nylons, nonstick pans and fibreglass

Question 45

When were the first television channels established

Answer 45

1939

Question 46

In 1928 how many passengers could American Airlines Carry

Answer 46

48,000

Question 47

In 1938 how many passengers could American Airlines Carry

Answer 47

1.1 million

Question 48

How did the sale of beer boom in the 1930s

Answer 48

Introduction of new cans