US History- Great Depression

The periodic expansion and contraction of the economy

What group suffered through an early depression in the 1920s?

What institution was hurt first by the stock market crash? 

Risky stock purchases made with hopes of high returns

Why did Americans believe they needed new leadership in 1932? 

What helped hide the economic problems in the 1920s? 

How did the unemployment rate for African Americans compare to the national average? 

How did European countries react to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff? 

Who was president when the stock market crashed? 

General who dispersed the Bonus Army protestors

What contributed to the plight of rural farmers? 

Dust Bowl refugees who moved West to find work? 

Where did most in the Dust Bowl move for jobs?

Why did President Hoover take a cautious approach to the Depression? 

On what day did the stock market crash begin?

The RFC loaned money to...

Some Americans blamed the Great Depression on __________________________.

Why did the stock market crash? 

The theory that money invested in banks will work its way down to workers

Why were minorities especially affected by the Great Depression? 

Why did the Bonus Army march on Washington D.C.? 

Agricultural workers who live on land owned by someone else

Government efforts to send Mexican migrants back to Mexico

What part of the business cycle was the US in during the 1920s?