American Vision Chapter 22 The Great Depression Begins

Question 1

A long period of rising stock prices

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Bull Market

Question 2

This film was based on a novel that became a musical and lifted viewers' spirits

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The Wizard of Oz

Question 3

When the soil dried to dust during the Depression it became known as a

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Dust bowl

Question 4

Private charities set these up to give poor people a meal

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Soup Kitchen

Question 5

The Republican candidate for president in 1928 was

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Hoover

Question 6

To get a free food handout one might stand in a

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Bread Line

Question 7

Homeless people created shantytowns, but called them this because they blamed the president

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Hoovervilles

Question 8

Government financed building projects are called

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public works

Question 9

A system for buying and selling shares of companies

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Stock Market

Question 10

Money that went directly to impoverished families was called

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relief

Question 11

Many escaped their troubles by watching a

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Movie

Question 12

The Democratic presidential candidate was

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Smith

Question 13

The Grapes of Wrath was written by

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John Steinbeck

Question 14

These court officials were expected to evict people from their homes

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Bailiffs

Question 15

The first feature-length animated film was

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Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs

Question 16

William Faulkner wrote

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The Sound and the Fury

Question 17

Radio shows sponsored by makers of laundry soap became known as

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Soap Operas

Question 18

In his inaugural speech, Hoover said our country was,

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"Bright with hope"

Question 19

Monday, October 21, 1929 the stock market

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Crashed

Questions 19