Chapter 8 Review: The Great Depression

When stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash they called it

What problem plagued the industrial workers of this time?

Practice of making high-risk investments in the hopes of obtaining large profits is called

President Hoover favored the idea of rugged individualism which meant

Process where Mexican Americans were forced by officials to return to Mexico is called

A healthy economy requires what?

Central and southern Great Plains when the region suffered from drought and dust storms was the

The Protective Import Tax during the Depression was called

Some Americans blamed the Great Depression on

What problems were associated with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

What economic condition did John Maynard Keynes believe cause the Great Depression?

The periodic growth and contraction of the economy

Herbert Hoover was the head of what agency during WWI?

Economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will benefit consumers is

President Hoover responded cautiously to the depression because he

Dust Bowl refugees were called

What regulates the amount of money in circulation in the United States?

What changed American behavior during the 1920s?

Why did so many banks fail at the onset of the Great Depression?

Line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies were called

President Hoover urged Congress to institute the RFC because the economy suffered from

Which of the following was NOT a hardship faced by American farmers during the Depression?

Makeshift shantytowns set up by the homeless during the Great Depression

Hoover's plan to reverse the economic downturn included

A federal agency set up to provide emergency credit to banks railroads & other large businesses

Farmers who survived in the Dust Bowl were the ones who

WWI veterans who marched on D.C. demanding early payment of a bonus for their military service

What group of people took the credit for the prosperity of the 1920s?

The dam built on the Colorado River during the Great Depression

One who works land owned by another is called a

Farmers contributed to the Dust Bowl by

1929-1941 where the economy faltered and unemployment soared was called

Policy during the Depression where local & state govts act as primary agents of economic relief

President Hoover's stressed the importance of what two things?

The first institutions to feel the effects of the stock market crash were the