The Great Depression

Question 0

Temporary towns that sprang up in cities across the US

Answer 0

Shanty towns

Question 1

Buying stock with hopes of reward and no thought of risk

Answer 1

Speculation

Question 2

A man walking the city in search of a job with little to no possessions

Answer 2

Hoboes

Question 3

The disaster that struck the Midwest farmers and created black blizzards

Answer 3

The dust bowl

Question 4

The economic philosophy of Herbert Hoover

Answer 4

Laissez-faire

Question 5

The day that started the great depression

Answer 5

Black Tuesday

Question 6

Lines of people waiting for free food

Answer 6

Breadlines

Question 7

The family role that would be focused on taking care of the children and working

Answer 7

Mother

Question 8

The record-breaking storms that destroyed businesses in the north east

Answer 8

The great flood

Question 9

The major government project Hoover supported to provide jobs and power

Answer 9

Hoover dam

Question 10

Thousands of being stuck closed when everyone withdrew money

Answer 10

Bank runs

Question 11

A physical condition in which you lack energy and are in pain because of lack of food

Answer 11

Malnutrition

Question 12

The title of the famous photograph of a P picker displaced to California

Answer 12

Migrant mother

Question 13

The name of the man who wrote the song about Okies traveling along route 66

Answer 13

Woody Guthrie

Question 14

The term for the group of World War I veterans who pressured Hoover to pay them in 1932

Answer 14

The bonus army

Question 15

What the Federal Reserve did that cause less money to be in circulation

Answer 15

Raised discount rates

Question 16

The unemployment rate was never lower than this number

Answer 16

20%

Question 17

The problems teenagers faced during the Great Depression

Answer 17

Lack of education, malnutrition, college dropouts, and ran away

Question 18

The state that thousands of Americans such as our migrant mother settled in during the 1930s

Answer 18

California

Question 19

The term for the government spending more money than they make in revenue

Answer 19

Deficit spending

Question 20

The terrace that raised prices on imported goods

Answer 20

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 21

Losing your home because you can’t afford to pay the mortgage

Answer 21

Foreclosure

Question 22

The state and local program that provided food and money to the poor

Answer 22

Public assistance

Question 23

The collection of laws and policies that FDR used to expand the role of government

Answer 23

The new deal

Question 24

FDR is liberal or conservative

Answer 24

Liberal

Question 25

Hoover is liberal or conservative

Answer 25

Conservative

Question 26

Drought

Answer 26

Lack of rain for Summers

Question 27

Desertification

Answer 27

Land becomes increasingly desert-like

Question 28

Depopulation

Answer 28

• 30,000 people left the region

- Black blizzards

Question 29

Okies (route 66)

Answer 29

New California residents who left home along route 66 after the dust bowl

Question 30

Great flood of 1936

Answer 30

Flood in the north east that resulted in a series of record-breaking storms