The Great Depression

Question 1

Who was elected in 1929 to be president?

Answer 1

Herbert Hoover

Question 2

When Hoover was inaugurated how was trade, industry and the economy doing?

Answer 2

It was booming

Question 3

Before the end of the year the ________ collapsed

Answer 3

stock market

Question 4

hoover was a firm believer in _______.

Answer 4

capitalism

Question 5

Did not believe in a _____ government, however he did see federal government playing a ______ role.

Answer 5

big

larger

Question 6

By 1929, the country was buying more ______ called ________.

Answer 6

stock

speculation

Question 7

People bought and sold their _______ in large corporations, which meant they owned a part of the company.

Answer 7

shares

Question 8

If the company made profits, share owners received ___________.

Answer 8

dividends

Question 9

If dividend grow, the value of shares ________.

Answer 9

increases.

Question 10

By the late 20s people started buying on ________ to buy stocks.

Answer 10

margin

Question 11

As long as stock prices were going ____, people made money.

Answer 11

up

Question 12

_________ is when stocks began to fall.

The date was _______.

Answer 12

black Thursday
10/24/29
October 24 1929

Question 13

_________ was when 16.5 million shares changed hands and prices fell steeply.
The date was ________.

Answer 13

Black Tuesday
10/29/29
October 29 1929

Question 14

Despite its suddenness, the stock market’s breadth and depth were not __________felt.

Answer 14

immediately

Question 15

what was the biggest initial problem after the stock market crash.

Answer 15

unemployment

Question 16

Hoover put his faith in this, a policy whereby problems could best be solved at local and state levels.

Answer 16

localism

Question 17

a good word to describe president hoovers response to the great depression

Answer 17

cautiously

Question 18

in 1928, this man was nominated by the republicans to be their presidential candidate.

Answer 18

hoover

Question 19

This “army” was made up of WW1 veterans who wanted bonuses promised to them by congress to be paid to them.

Answer 19

bonus

Question 20

The man who defeated hoover in the 1932 presidential election

Answer 20

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 21

Last name of the person Hoover put in charge to take care of the WW1 veterans marching on Washington to get their bonuses.

Answer 21

MacArthur

Question 22

Who wrote the Grapes of Wrath?

Answer 22

Steinbeck

Question 23

This act gave railroads and large businesses more than a million dollars of government loans to help them during the depression.

Answer 23

RFC

Reconstruction Finance Cooperation

Question 24

refugees were referred to as this, regardless of their origin.

Answer 24

Okies

Question 25

Uneven ________ of the nation's wealth created economic problems.

Answer 25

distribution

Question 26

________ was this swath of parched earth that were hard hit regions of the drought.

Answer 26

Dust Bowl

Question 27

The Great Crash represented another hallmark of the nation's business _______, which explained the economic growth and contraction of the economy.

Answer 27

cycle

Question 28

_________ project was a massive public program that brought much-needed employment to the southwest during the 1930s.

Answer 28

Hoover Dam

Question 29

Last name of the British economist who argued that the lack of government interference in the economy led to the depression.

Answer 29

Keynes

Question 30

To move or direct someone toward the same purpose

Answer 30

converge

Question 31

Last name of the democrat nominee for president in 1928. He had been the governor of New York.

Answer 31

Smith

Question 32

It could be said that the president Hoover's programs to relieve the nation of the Great Depression relied to much on __________.

Answer 32

voluntary cooperation.

Question 33

Group that did not share the economic growth of the 1920s.

Answer 33

farmers

Question 34

It became clear that too much money was being poured into stock _________. Investors were gambling, often with money they did not even have on stock increases to turn quick profits.

Answer 34

speculation

Question 35

Congress passed the _______________ which raised prices on foreign imports to such a level that they could not compete in the American market.

Answer 35

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 36

These workers did share the economic growth of the 1920s.

Answer 36

Industrial workers

Question 37

Easy _____ during the 1920s hid problems in Amrican's economy.

Answer 37

Credit

Question 38

What was it called when factories couldn't sell products, workers were laid off, workers lost their savings so they couldn't buy anything.

Answer 38

snowball effect

Question 39

By 1932, _____ in every _____ were out of work

Answer 39

1 of 4

Question 40

Some lived in cardboard houses called ______

Answer 40

Hooverville

Question 41

During this time did the divorce rate increase or decrease?

Answer 41

decrease

Question 42

What was hoovers original job?

Answer 42

Mining engineer

Question 43

What did hoover try to do to mitigate the effects of the depression?

Answer 43

Large scale public works projects

Question 44

Where did farmers experience drought and what was this area called?

Answer 44

the great plains | the dust bowl

Question 45

What year did the dust bowl begin?

Answer 45

1934

Question 46

What major cities were hit by the dust?

Answer 46

New York, Chicago, Boston

Question 47

What were some of the states that made up the dust bowl?

Answer 47

Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado

Question 48

What "did the farmers in"?

Answer 48

extended drought, loss of top soil, high winds

Question 49

What did farmers do in response to the dust stroms?

Answer 49

they fled

Question 50

Who was hoovers secretary of treasury?

Answer 50

Andrew Mellon

Question 51

What did Andrew Mellon say do to in response to the depression?

Answer 51

That the government should do nothing

Question 52

What did he call on to help feed the hungry?

Answer 52

Charities

Question 53

Andrew Mellon got businesses and leader to promise to do what?

Answer 53

Keep up wages and keep factories going

Question 54

Hoover cut his presidential salary by how much?

Answer 54

one fifth

Question 55

Hoover also cut ____taxes

Answer 55

income

Question 56

In 1929, congress passed a law to create the federal _____ board

Answer 56

farm

Question 57

The problem was that the farm board could not control _____?

Answer 57

Production

Question 58

Who did the board lend money to? They also bought excess ______ and ______?

Answer 58

farmers | wheat and cotton

Question 59

Congress passed the _____ in 1930 which boosted tariffs on more foreign goods.

Answer 59

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 60

The unemployed striked back by breaking into______, standing with ______to drive off the sheriff who came to seize their land, and going on ____ marches

Answer 60

stores pitch-forks hunger

Question 61

The _____ went to Washington DC to demand their bonuses

Answer 61

bonus army

Question 62

The bonus army was made up of ______ and president Hoover got ____ to help get rid of them

Answer 62

veterans | MacArthur

Question 63

In the 1932 election Hoover ran against and lost to who?

Answer 63

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 64

Franklin Roosevelt was the _______ of _______and he attacked republicans for allowing what?

Answer 64

democratic governor of New York | Stock Speculation

Question 65

What did Roosevelt want repealed? What did Roosevelt want to be distributed more fairly? He planned on recovering through _____?

Answer 65

Prohibition Products of Industry Experimentation