The Depression

Question 0

How much money was lost in the stock market in one day?

Answer 0

$10,000 million

Question 1

Shares worth $100 in 1920 were worth what by 1929?

Answer 1

$325

Question 2

5% of people owned what percentage of the wealth?

Answer 2

30%

Question 3

How many businesses went bankrupt?

Answer 3

100,000

Question 4

What were the temporary homes called that homeless people built?

Answer 4

Hoovervilles

Question 5

How many banks went bankrupt (including the Bank of America)?

Answer 5

5,000

Question 6

25% of Americans were unemployed by what year?

Answer 6

1933

Question 7

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

Answer 7

238

Question 8

In 1932, how many Americans had there homes repossessed?

Answer 8

1/4 of a million

Question 9

What fraction of farmers lost their farms?

Answer 9

1/5

Question 10

How much did wages fall by?

Answer 10

60%

Question 11

When were the bonus marches and how many veterans took part?

Answer 11

Summer of 1932, 20,000 veterans

Question 12

How many people were injured as a result of the tear gas and violence used to remove the protesters (roughly)?

Answer 12

1000s

Question 13

What had Hoover been promising since 1929?

Answer 13

‘Prosperity is just around the corner’

Question 14

How far did Roosevelt travel around the country to make speeches?

Answer 14

20,000km

Question 15

Roosevelt’s promise of a what was more popular than Hoover’s ‘rugged individualism’?

Answer 15

New deal

Question 16

Roosevelt won how many of the 48 states as a landslide victory?

Answer 16

42