Ch. 15 The Great Depression

Who promised to put the political and economic system "at the service of the people"?

The number of radios in American homes fell during the depression.

Many stock speculators put up as little as 10 percent of the price of a stock when they

Shantytowns were called Hoovervilles.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was born into

the idea that success comes from individual effort

fought for Mexican American rights

the regular ups and downs of business

Immigration into the United States greately increased in the 1930s.

Some economists felt the depression was

Congress and state governments funded several public-works projects

Food was given to the needy in

an upward trend in the stock market

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was authorzied to lend money to needy citizens.

Congress passed a bill in 1932 that aided veterans.

Many economists said the depression was

makeshift shelters

Robert La Follette Jr. proposed a bill to give financial aid to industry.

How many people of Mexican descent were pressured into leaving the country?

The bill to establish a Federal Emergency Relief Board was

offered the American public a "new deal"

The proper term describing the U.S. economy after the depression is

African Americans were often

At the height of the depression the number of unemployed workers reached about

mutual aid societies

Midwestern farmers faced

By the end of 1929 stock losses exceeded U.S. expenses for World War I.

Banks were plunged into crisis as

Among the most popular films of the era were

Roosevelt took the 1932 election with

deep economic downturn lasting from 1929 to the 1940s

The Rebulican took a clear majority in both houses of Congress in 1931.

The percentage of women in the workplace fell during the depression.

faced blame for shanytowns

the practice of buying stocks with borrowed money

thought government should let business get out of depression on its own

Farmers banded together to save farms from

playing the market

organized Hispanic migrants to resist oppression

Southern tenant farmers were amoung the hardest hit by the depression.

poor African American women on corners hoping for a day's work

a novel about a lost utopia in Tibet

brightened the 1930s with cartoons

The construction of Boulder Dam was a small private development.

Credit purchases in 1929 reached

Who commanded the troops that drove the Bonus Army veterans from their encampment?

The President's Committee for Unemployment Relief

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the depression?

author of As I Lay Dying

October 29, 1929

Banks were a safer place to keep your money than the stock market.

The global economy suffered because of

World War I veterans who protested in Washington, D.C.

The Republican administration had reasoned that easy credit would aid business.

Who gathered the jobless into Unemployed Leagues to demand work?

Which group believed that capitalism was the cause of the Great Depression?

Nathanael West presented the American dream as a nightmare in

the highest tariff in U.S. history

The gross national product measures products the United States ships overseas.

The Repulican Party supplied the legal defense funds for the "Scottsboro Boys."