The Great Depression

Question 1

What happen to the savings of a person when a bank collapsed?

Accepted Answer

lost their savings

Question 2

the group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington in 1932 were called what?

Accepted Answer

Bonus Army

Question 3

The main purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was to provide what?

Accepted Answer

Loans to the states for direct relief

Question 4

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulated the stock market to prevent what kind of practices?

Accepted Answer

Dishonest practices

Question 5

Hoover refused to do this which was when the government spent more than what is collected in taxes?

Accepted Answer

Budget deficit

Question 6

In 1932, Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops because of why?

Accepted Answer

soil dried up

Question 7

This was a famous film super star who fled to Hollywood to escape hardship in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Marlene Dietrich

Question 8

The long period of rising stock prices is known as what?

Accepted Answer

Bull Market

Question 9

The purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was to employ men to do what?

Accepted Answer

natural resource conservation

Question 10

You currently learning through virtual learning means you are not in school?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

The Federal Reserve were partly responsible for the Depression because they did what?

Accepted Answer

kept loan rates low

Question 12

FDR caught which paralyzing disease which left him with little use of his legs?

Accepted Answer

polio

Question 13

During the depression, state governors declared “bank holiday” in order to do what?

Accepted Answer

prevent bank runs

Question 14

The Issue of religion hurt the 1928 president campaign of whom?

Accepted Answer

Alfred Smith

Question 15

As governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt won popularity by helping who?

Accepted Answer

poor people

Question 16

This writer wrote The Grapes of Wrath, a family fleeing the Dust Bowl which was based off real stories?

Accepted Answer

John Steinbeck

Question 17

During the Depression, charities set up these to give poor people a meal?

Accepted Answer

Soup Kitchen

Question 18

This was the fictitious companion of the Lone Ranger?

Accepted Answer

Tonto

Question 19

Stock prices first began to decline in the late 1929 because of why?

Accepted Answer

Investors began to sell their stock

Question 20

Franklin Roosevelt’s policies for ending the Depression became known as what?

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 21

During the depression this was the name people were given to those who moved around the nation on freight trains?

Accepted Answer

Hobos

Question 22

This future general led the troops that dispersed the Bonus Army

Accepted Answer

Douglas MacArthur

Question 23

Hoover wanted state and city gov’ts to provide what, defined as money given directly to impoverished families?

Accepted Answer

relief

Question 24

Who invested in stocks betting that the market would continue to climb making a quick profit?

Accepted Answer

Speculators

Question 25

What year did the stock market crash take place?

Accepted Answer

1929

Question 26

The purpose of the Agricultural adjustment Act (AAA) was to reduce agricultural surplus and rising prices to combat what

Accepted Answer

overproduction

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