stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
The Wall Street Crash Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
The Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash
16 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
234 plays
A quiz based on the Wall Street Crash.
Flashcards
16 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
16
Answers
1
Which of these adjectives does NOT describe the Roaring Twenties?
Prosperous
Indigent
Burgeoning
Affluent
2
Who won the presidential election of 1932?
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
3
What was the name of the president who did very little to help the families in Hoovervilles?
Harold
Hayden
Herbert
Hubert
4
What is the day called in which the Wall Street Crash began?
Black Tuesday
Black Monday
Black Friday
Black Thursday
5
Which political party was Franklin D. Roosevelt with?
Federalist
Democratic-Republican
Republican
Democratic
6
Over the next few years, unemployment ...
dipped
escalated
tumbled
plummeted
7
By 1928, how much of the population owned cars?
60%
80%
40%
20%
8
During the Roaring Twenties, stock prices ____ on the Stock Exchange on Wall Street.
soared
tumbled
slumped
dipped
9
When did the stock market reach a peak of 27% more compared with the previous year?
24 October 1928
24 October 1929
3 September 1929
8 November 1929
10
The American economy didn't fully recover until ...
1939
1954
1945
1941
11
What happened in 1941?
USA entered World War II
World War II began
USA exited World War II
World War II ended
12
Which political party was Herbert Hoover with?
Republican
Democratic-Republican
Federalist
Democratic
13
Which era followed the end of World War I in the US?
Wall Street Crash
Golden Twenties
Great Depression
Roaring Twenties
14
What arrived after the Wall Street Crash?
Prosperity
World War II
The Great Depression
Roaring Twenties
15
True or False: The electorate agreed with Hoover that prosperity was just around the corner.
True
False
16
What were the shacks on the outskirts of cities called?
Shackvilles
Rooseveltvilles
Slumvilles
Hoovervilles
