American History Chapter 7 Picture Review

What factor contributed to the plight of rural farmers?

Farmers contributed to the problems that led to the Dust Bowl by...

At the onset of the the Great Depression, urban unemployment...

Some Americans blamed the Great Depression on...

President when the stock market crashed.

Stock market crash.

What group experienced an early depression in the 1920s?

European countries reacted to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff by...

What happened to the stock market when investors lost confidence and rushed to sell shares?

People likely abandoned their farms during the Dust Bowl because...

Investors sold more than 16 million shares of stock on what has become known as?

Unemployment rate among African Americans was...

Public works programs were part of a policy known as...

Whose tight monetary policy reduced the money supply, which limited amount of $ in circulation?

Why did African Americans and Mexican Americans have a difficult time during the depression?

Why did many Americans seek new leadership in 1932?

Government efforts to encourage or pressure Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico.

Theory that money invested in banks and businesses will work its way to the people.

General who dispersed protestors in the capital by ordering federal troops to use tear gas.

Periodic expansion and contraction of the economy.

This man responded cautiously to the Depression because he thought it would correct itself.

Agriculture workers who work on land owned by someone else.

Risky stock purchases made by investors with the hope of high returns.

President Hoover believed that the economy suffered from a lack of credit so he created the?

What factor helped hide economic problems in the 1920s?

During the 20s the U.S. was experiencing which phase of the "business cycle"?

This failed because businesses and citizens acted in their individual best interests.

The U.S. decreasing investments in Europe was a factor that helped spread the Depression...

Dust Bowl refugees who moved westward to find work.

What is depicted in the photo below?

Federal troops used tear gas and bayonets on this group of protestors.

This was created to loan money to banks so they could lend to businesses to help the economy.

John Maynard Keynes believed that a lack of government intervention is what caused the...

Where was the destination of most Dust Bowl migrants?

WWI veterans who marched to demand payment of money promised by Congress.