Why did volunteerism fail?

Businesses and citizens operated in their own best interests

What contributed to the spread of the Great Depression overseas?

decline in investment from the United States

Why did the bonus army march on Washington D.C.?

Hoover vetoed a bill providing early bonuses to veterans

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The Great Depression

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1
Refugees from the Dust Bowl
Okies
Speculators
Texans
Bonus Army
2
The event of the stock market crash
Black Tuesday
Blue Thursday
Red Friday
Black Sunday
3
Agricultural worker who do not own their own land
Tenant Farmers
Wage slavery
Bonus army
Sharecropping
4
Risky stock purchases
Speculation
Buying on margin
Selling on margin
Bull market
5
Why did the stock market crash?
Federal Reserve increased money supply
Depositors made runs on the nations banks
Germany ceased reparations payments
Investors sold their shares
6
Which group faced the greatest financial difficulty during the 1920s?
farmers
stock market investors
industrial workers
bank owners
7
Periodic growth and contraction of the economy
Stock market crash
Business cycle
Law of diminishing returns
Supply and demand
8
President when the stock market crashed
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Grover Cleveland
Calvin Coolidge
9
Theory that money invested in business will also reach and help workers
Trumped Up Economics
Trickle Down Economics
Law of Demand
Law of Supply
10
Government efforts to encourage or pressure Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico
Repatriation
Speculation
Deportation
Black Tuesday
11
The group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington D.C
Tenant Army
Tenant Farmers
Bonus Military
Bonus Army
12
Why did volunteerism fail?
Hoover supported government intervention
Banks made too many loans
Businesses and citizens operated in their own best interests
Charities took control of local efforts
13
During the 1920s, the United States economy was in which phase of the business cycle?
peak
contraction
trough
expansion
14
General who ordered federal troops to attack the Bonus Army protesters with tear gas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Ulysses S. Grant
15
What contributed to the spread of the Great Depression overseas?
lowering of tariffs in the US and Europe
decline in investment from the United States
a decline in U.S. production
increase in international trade
16
Why did the bonus army march on Washington D.C.?
Federal Reserve refused to pay bonuses
Hoover vetoed a bill providing early bonuses to veterans
Congress passed a bill promising to pay bonuses in 1945
General MacArthur attacked protesters

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