The Great Depression

Question 1

became president in a landslide win over Alfred E. Smith in 1928

Answer 1

Herbert Hoover

Question 2

Hoover was ___________and head of the ___________ ________________

Answer 2

Secretary of Commerce; Food Administration

Question 3

The _____________ is a system for buying and selling stock in corporations

Answer 3

Stock market

Question 4

A long period of rising stocks is known as a

Answer 4

bull market

Question 5

A market condition in which prices of securities are falling, thus causing pessimism in the market known as a

Answer 5

Bear market

Question 6

___________ is the act of buying stocks at great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise

Answer 6

Speculation

Question 7

buying stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest

Answer 7

Margin

Question 8

On October 24, a day that came to be called_____ _______, the market plummeted further than three days earlier

Answer 8

Black Thursday

Question 9

The following week, October 29, a day that was later dubbed ________ _________ prices took the steepest dive

Answer 9

Black Tuesday

Question 10

The_________ _______ is a measure of the value of leading industrial companies

Answer 10

Industrial Index

Question 11

A _____ ___ is caused by persistent and heavy demands by bank’s depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money

Answer 11

bank run

Question 12

____________ was a factor leading to the onset of the Great Depression

Answer 12

Overproduction

Question 13

The ____________ __________ raised the average tariff rate to the highest level in American history

Answer 13

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 14

__________ _________ _________ kept its rates low throughout the 1920s

Answer 14

Federal Reserve Board

Question 15

A ___________ is a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economics

Answer 15

depression

Question 16

An __________ _________, which is a slowdown in economic activity over the course of a normal business cycle

Answer 16

economic recession

Question 17

People who were evicted built _____________

Answer 17

Shantytowns

Question 18

Another name for shantytowns is ___________

Answer 18

Hoovervilles

Question 19

The federal government launched _________ to send poor immigrants back to their home countries

Answer 19

repatriation drives

Question 20

A vast _______ _______ stretched from the Dakotas to Texas

Answer 20

Dust Bowl

Question 21

People who survived would catch _________ _________

Answer 21

Dust pneumonia

Question 22

The dust storms would be called ________ _________ or ________ _________

Answer 22

black blizzards or black rollers

Question 23

John Steinbeck wrote _____________ and _________ ______ _________ based on the Dust Bowl

Answer 23

Of Mice and Men;The Grapes of Wrath

Question 24

_________ _______ would write folk music based on his experiences

Answer 24

Woody Guthrie

Question 25

Because many migrants were from Oklahoma, they became known as _______

Answer 25

“Okies”

Question 26

Walt Disney produced the first feature-length animated film, _________________, in 1937

Answer 26

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Question 27

In 1939, MGM produced the _______ ____ ____, the first movie in color

Answer 27

Wizard of Oz

Question 28

Would hear stories of superheroes like the__________

Answer 28

Green Hornet