vocab quiz

Question 1

The day the stock market crashed and marked the beginning of the Great Depression

Answer 1

Black Tuesday

Question 2

The collapse of the American stock market in 1929

Answer 2

The Great crash

Question 3

Penny auctions

Answer 3

Farm auctions during the great depression where neighbors helped each other keep their farms bidding very low

Question 4

A group of WWI veterans and their families who protested in Washington DC in 1932, demanding early payment of a bonus promised for 1945

Answer 4

Bonus Army

Question 5

A government corporation created by president Hoover in 1932 to provide financial support to industries, railroads, and insurance companies

Answer 5

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Question 6

Business Cycle

Answer 6

A cycle in which a business expands than contracts

Question 7

Hoovervilles

Answer 7

Shanty towns/shelters of the homeless that mocked the president whom people blamed for not resolving the crisis

Question 8

Prohibition

Answer 8

The ban of consumption, manufacture, and sale of alcohol

Question 9

Dust Bowl

Answer 9

An environmental crisis between the 1930s and 1940s where so much soil blew out of the Great Plains

Question 10

Hawley Smoot Tariff

Answer 10

One of the highest import tariffs ever put in place; encouraged Americans to buy American produce