Mod 9 Great Depression

Why did wealth inequality help lead to the stock market to crash?

Who did people blame the Great Depression on?

In the late 1920s and early 1930s when a bank collapsed what happened to people who still had money in the bank?

What was one advantage that people in rural areas had during the Great Depression that people in the cities lacked?

People blamed Hoover for the continuation of the Great Depression because he didn't ask _ to do more to fix the economy.

Why was much of the prosperity of the 1920s more superficial than real?

Who was president at the start of the Great Depression?

Could the 1930s dust bowl happen again?

Why didn't the federal government do more at the start and during the Hoover years to combat the depression?

Unemployment reached what percentage during the Great Depression?

Who ran the majority of soup kitchens and breadlines?

Why were married women who worked looked down upon during the Great Depression?

Why were men having such a difficult time mentally when it came to the Great Depression

Why was Black Tuesday such a significant day in American history?

This is a decrease in general prices of goods and services.

During the 1920s, Americans appeared to be prosperous but, many of them were buying on w/ $ that they did not have

How did Americans express their dissatisfaction for the way Hoover handled the Great Depression?

Name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the US, which suffered severe dust storms in 1930s

This illness came from breathing in too much dirt and dust during dust storms. It killed babies and elderly.

Shantytowns which consisted of shacks made with whatever people could find were called what?

What is a stock as it relates to the Great Depression?

When the stock market crashed in 1929- what percent of the American public was invested?

Why did coal lose half its market share?

Children suffered from rickets- which is caused by what?

During the extended years of drought- what animal wreaked havoc on the little crops farmers were able to grow.

What did the Bonus Army hope to gain by assembling near the Capitol?

How long does it take for an inch of topsoil to form?

Why did the Great Depression in America compound the problems that were already going on in Europe?

Unemployment for African Americans during the Great Depression was __ ?

Why were farmers in a crisis in 1920s?

Hoover signed the Federal Home Loan Bank Act in 1932, which gave homeowners and farmers the chance to _______

This was the term given to farmers who left Oklahoma to head to the West Coast in search of jobs.

Black Tuesday was a significant day in American history b/c more than 16.4 million shares of stock were sold, causing

Speculation allowed people ________________ on margin, which caused individual companies to look more valuable

What economic sector is still the "canary in the coal mine" to sit the economy is starting to turn down?

What is the difference between an economic depression and recession?

This is the place where you buy shares of a publicly traded company.

The world felt the impact of the stock market crash and Great Depression that was going on in USA bc by this point many

Why was the stock market crash so devastating to the US?

During the Great Depression what was the main reason kids not in school?

When the stock market is a period of rising it is referred to as what type of market?

During the 1920s why did railroads start to be in financial trouble?

What was one problem with speculation?

Over 300,000 of these would ride the trains going from place to place looking for food and work.

The ________ is the average of 30 large firms trading on the New York Stock exchange.