Great Depression Effects and Causes - Pre IB OIS

What does this photo symbolize about life during the Great Depression?

What was one of the main consequences of overproduction in the 1920s leading up to the Great Depression?

What event marked the Great Depression?

The Smoot-Hawley Act led to a significant increase in international trade.

What was the primary reason Republican policies in the 1920s failed to prevent the Great Depression?

The Great Depression caused widespread homelessness in both cities and rural areas

By 1933, what percentage of the U.S. workforce was unemployed?

Which of the following best explains why the stock market crash of 1929 led to widespread economic collapse?

The stock market crash of 1929 caused the Great Depression to begin immediately.

What were the Republican policies that were ineffective in preventing and combating the Great Depression?

What were the makeshift settlements called where homeless families lived during the Great Depression?

Direct federal relief programs were common at the start of the Great Depression.

By the early 1930s, almost half of all American banks had failed due to the Great Depression

What were the main causes of the Great Depression?

Why was buying stocks and shares in a company so attractive in the 1920s?