The Great Depression Movies

Question 1

Who was a living symbol of power and prosperity?

Answer 1

Ford

Question 2

How much did a person earn a day at Fords?

Answer 2

$5

Question 3

Were there a lot of immigrants in the Ford factory?

Answer 3

yes

Question 4

What city was the heart of industrial America?

Answer 4

Detroit

Question 5

What was the most widely used vehicle in human history?

Answer 5

Model T

Question 6

What religious group did Ford’s newspaper, Dearborn Independent, attack?

Answer 6

Jewish

Question 7

What person in Munich had a picture of Ford?

Answer 7

Hitler

Question 8

Could you talk or whistle while working the assembly line?

Answer 8

no

Question 9

What new card did Ford introduce?

Answer 9

Model A

Question 10

In the 1920s, were people living beyond their means?

Answer 10

yes

Question 11

In what year did the stock exchange experience its worst loss?

Answer 11

1929

Question 12

What was there a flood of in the 1930s?

Answer 12

layoffs

Question 13

Did the govt have programs for the unemployed?

Answer 13

no

Question 14

Was there social security for the aged?

Answer 14

no

Question 15

Who was president at the start of the Great Depression?

Answer 15

Hoover

Question 16

What political party marched for food, relief, shelter, and jobs?

Answer 16

Communist

Question 17

What did Hoover say was just around the corner? In every pot?

Answer 17

prosperitychicken

Question 18

How much did Ford make in 1930?

Answer 18

$30 million

Question 19

What was the unemployment rate in Toledo?

Answer 19

80%

Question 20

How many employees lost their job when the factory closed?

Answer 20

60000

Question 21

What did people call the shantytowns that sprung up?

Answer 21

Hoovervilles

Question 22

In Detroit, how many evictions were there a day?

Answer 22

150

Question 23

What did a doctor say killed one person in Detroit every 7 hours?

Answer 23

starvation

Question 24

Where did Hoover put money to stimulate jobs?

Answer 24

People at the top and Reconstruction Finance Corp

Question 25

Did Hoover give any direct money to the unemployed?

Answer 25

no

Question 26

Where did people march to on March 7, 1932?

Answer 26

Rouge Ford Factory

Question 27

How many people were shot? Where were most of them shot? How many died?

Answer 27

26In the back4

Question 28

What was Ford's home fortified with?

Answer 28

machine guns

Question 29

From what war were the Veterans that would shake the nation?

Answer 29

WWI

Question 30

What did Veterans want now?

Answer 30

Bonus money

Question 31

What army was going to Washington DC?

Answer 31

Bonus army

Question 32

Did the veterans plan on staying until they got what they wanted?

Answer 32

yes

Question 33

Who ordered tanks closer to the camps?

Answer 33

MacArthur

Question 34

What did Hoover give to camps?

Answer 34

blankets and medicinal supplies

Question 35

Who was in charge of the camps?

Answer 35

Walter Waters

Question 36

How many were in the camps?

Answer 36

3000

Question 37

What did Hoover want the budget to be?

Answer 37

balanced

Question 38

Did the House pass the Bonus Bill? Did it pass the Senate?

Answer 38

yesno

Question 39

If there were a revolution in America, what would the sides be?

Answer 39

Rich vs Poor

Question 40

How large did the Hooverville on the Anacostia River grow to?

Answer 40

20000 people

Question 41

How did members of Congress leave after the legislation session was over?

Answer 41

through underground tunnels

Question 42

Did the veterans resist when the police began evicting them?

Answer 42

yes

Question 43

What was called once the police could not evict everyone?

Answer 43

US military

Question 44

Who commanded the US Army? Who assisted?

Answer 44

MacArthurEisenhower and Patton

Question 45

What did the soldiers do to the shacks?

Answer 45

set them on fire

Question 46

Did General MacArthur ignore the Presidential order to not cross the bridge?

Answer 46

yes

Question 47

Did Hoover take responsibility for the army's actions?

Answer 47

yes

Question 48

What is Hoover synonymous with?

Answer 48

depression

Question 49

What number president was Hoover? Political Party? From when?

Answer 49

31Republican1929-1933

Question 50

Hoover was the first president born west of the

Answer 50

Mississippi

Question 51

What game did the govt workers play in the morning for not only exercise but to talk to one another

Answer 51

Hooverball

Question 52

What did Hoover say was wrong with capitalism?

Answer 52

capitalists

Question 53

Was Hoover a workaholic?

Answer 53

yes

Question 54

Was Hoover charismatic?

Answer 54

no

Question 55

Did Hoover believe in direct govt relief?

Answer 55

no

Question 56

What did Hoover believe would fix the depression?

Answer 56

voluntarism

Question 57

What was a Hoover hotel?

Answer 57

cardboard shack

Question 58

What was a Hooverville?

Answer 58

collection of cardboard shacks

Question 59

What was a Hoover flag?

Answer 59

empty pocket turned inside out

Question 60

What was everywhere Hoover campaigned?

Answer 60

specter of hunger

Question 61

What was the name of the marchers who came to Washington DC?

Answer 61

bonus marchers

Question 62

What did Roosevelt offer?

Answer 62

sense of hope

Question 63

What did Hoover have on his desk?

Answer 63

telephone