USA booklet 4: Wall Street Crash

Question 1

What month and year did the Wall St. Crash occur?

Answer 1

October, 1929

Question 2

What percentage did banks lend when ‘Buying on Margin’?

Answer 2

90%

Question 3

How much money did Rockefeller lose?

Answer 3

$160 million

Question 4

What ratio of farmers were evicted from their land?

Answer 4

1/20

Question 5

What did farm income drop to by 1933?

Answer 5

$5 billion

Question 6

How much did average income drop by?

Answer 6

60%

Question 7

What was gambling on the stock market nicknamed?

Answer 7

Speculation

Question 8

How many people died of starvation during the depression?

Answer 8

45

Question 9

What percentage of people was unemployed in Toledo?

Answer 9

80%

Question 10

How many share holders were there by 1929?

Answer 10

20 million

Question 11

How many depositors did the Bank of USA have when it closed in 1930?

Answer 11

400,000

Question 12

Fill in the blanks: ‘In _____ we ______ and now we are ______’ (Iowa Farmers’ slogan)

Answer 12

Hoover, trusted, busted

Question 13

What nickname did the shanty towns have?

Answer 13

Hoovervilles

Question 14

Who did Hoover use to deal with the Bonus Marchers?

Answer 14

General Douglas McArthur

Question 15

By how much did farm and industrial production fall?

Answer 15

40%

Question 16

How many speculators were there by 1929?

Answer 16

600,000

Question 17

How many people committed suicide each year during the depression?

Answer 17

23,000

Question 18

What law did Hoover block in 1932?

Answer 18

Wagner-Garner Relief Act

Question 19

What were beggars nicknamed?

Answer 19

Panhandlers

Question 20

How many people were unemployed by 1933?

Answer 20

14 million

Question 21

How did FDR help the poor when he was governor of New York?

Answer 21

Gave $20 million to relief programmes

Question 22

What did over-farming lead to?

Answer 22

Dustbowls

Question 23

Who predicted on Sept 5th 1929 that the crash would happen?

Answer 23

Babson

Question 24

What percentage of people were unemployed in Cleveland?

Answer 24

50%

Question 25

What were ‘Hoover blankets’?

Answer 25

Newpapers

Question 26

How much money did the Vanderbilts lose?

Answer 26

$40 million

Question 27

How much money would the Wagner-Garner Relief Act have provided for jobs?

Answer 27

$2.1 billion

Question 28

What was farm income in 1929?

Answer 28

$13 billion

Question 29

By how much did international trade fall?

Answer 29

$7 billion

Question 30

How much money did bank lend to speculators in 1929?

Answer 30

$9 billion

Question 31

What nickname did Hoover have?

Answer 31

‘Do-nothing President’

Question 32

How many people were made unemployed each day?

Answer 32

12,000

Question 33

How far did FDR travel by train during the election campaign?

Answer 33

20,800km

Question 34

How many apple sellers were there in New York city?

Answer 34

6000

Question 35

What month and year was the Bonus March?

Answer 35

Jun-32

Question 36

What did Hoover introduce to support banks in 1932?

Answer 36

Reconstruction Finance Company

Question 37

By how many votes did Roosevelt win the 1932 election?

Answer 37

7 million

Question 38

What was a Hoover Hog?

Answer 38

An armadillo that people used to eat.

Question 39

How much did Churchill lose in the Crash?

Answer 39

$500,000

Question 40

How many major speeches did FDR make during his campaign?

Answer 40

16