The Great Depression Begins - Chapter 22

Question 1

Agency established in 1932 to provide emergency relief to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks

Answer 1

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Question 2

Index of stock prices of select companies

Answer 2

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Question 3

October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed

Answer 3

Black Tuesday

Question 4

Investments in high-risk ventures

Answer 4

Speculation

Question 5

Buying stock by paying only a portion of the full cost up-front with promises to pay the rest later

Answer 5

Buying on margin

Question 6

Democratic presidential candidate in 1928

Answer 6

Alfred E. Smith

Question 7

Place where free food is served to the needy

Answer 7

Soup Kitchen

Question 8

Short-term loans to buy goods with promises to pay later

Answer 8

Credit

Question 9

Law passed in 1931 to reduce mortgage rates to save farmers from foreclosure

Answer 9

Federal Home Loan Bank Act

Question 10

Period of bad economic times in the United States that lasted from 1929 to 1941

Answer 10

Great Depression

Question 11

Law that keeps prices above a set level

Answer 11

Price support

Question 12

Unemployed World War I veterans who marched to Washington to demand their war bonuses

Answer 12

Bonus Army

Question 13

Area of the Great Plains made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms in the 1930s

Answer 13

Dust Bowl

Question 14

A neighborhood where people live in shacks

Answer 14

Shantytown

Question 15

Law that raised taxes on imports and worsened the Depression

Answer 15

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

Question 16

31st President

Answer 16

Herbert Hoover

Question 17

Money or food given directly from the government to the needy

Answer 17

Direct Relief

Question 18

Dam on the Colorado River built during the Depression to create jobs

Answer 18

Boulder Dam

Question 19

A line of people waiting for free food

Answer 19

Bread Line