Section 1

Question 0

What really caused it

Answer 0

Weakness of the new era economy

Question 1

What marked the beginning of the Great Depression?

Answer 1

The stock market crash

Question 2

What was the most damaging economic aspect

Answer 2

Unequal distribution of wealth

Question 3

What did oligopolies do

Answer 3

Kept prices artificially high and rigid

Question 4

What furthered the problem?

Answer 4

Weakness in industries as well as poor management and regulation of banks

Question 5

What else contributed to the crash?

Answer 5

International economic difficulties

Question 6

What happen by the 1930s?

Answer 6

Industrial production plummeted

Question 7

How much of the labor force was unemployed by 1932?

Answer 7

1/4

Question 8

What happen between 1929-1932

Answer 8

Personal income dropped by over half

Question 9

Who were particularly hit by the depression?

Answer 9

Farmers

Question 10

How much did prices fall between 1929-1932

Answer 10

55%

Question 11

What families were moved to Hooverville (shantytowns)

Answer 11

Urban families

Question 12

Women jobs

Answer 12

Lower paying jobs so less likely to be fired

Married women did not work

Question 13

Men jobs

Answer 13

Displaced women as teachers, social workers and librarians

Question 14

During the depression what fell in families?

Answer 14

Divorce and birth rates

Question 15

How did the husbands and father feel

Answer 15

Often humiliated and despondent when fired

Question 16

Women responsibility

Answer 16

• became wage earners

- expanded household duties to lower expenses and raise money

Question 17

Children

Answer 17

Went hungry, stayed home from school and gave up future plans

Question 18

As hope faded what increased

Answer 18

Family conflicts