Chapter 8 Review: The Great Depression

What economic condition did John Maynard Keynes believe cause the Great Depression?

The dam built on the Colorado River during the Great Depression

What changed American behavior during the 1920s?

The first institutions to feel the effects of the stock market crash were the

President Hoover's stressed the importance of what two things?

What problem plagued the industrial workers of this time?

Process where Mexican Americans were forced by officials to return to Mexico is called

What regulates the amount of money in circulation in the United States?

The Protective Import Tax during the Depression was called

What problems were associated with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

President Hoover urged Congress to institute the RFC because the economy suffered from

Dust Bowl refugees were called

Some Americans blamed the Great Depression on

A healthy economy requires what?

Economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will benefit consumers is

Makeshift shantytowns set up by the homeless during the Great Depression

Farmers who survived in the Dust Bowl were the ones who

Line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies were called

Why did so many banks fail at the onset of the Great Depression?

Which of the following was NOT a hardship faced by American farmers during the Depression?

What group of people took the credit for the prosperity of the 1920s?

President Hoover responded cautiously to the depression because he

A federal agency set up to provide emergency credit to banks railroads & other large businesses

WWI veterans who marched on D.C. demanding early payment of a bonus for their military service

One who works land owned by another is called a

Farmers contributed to the Dust Bowl by

Practice of making high-risk investments in the hopes of obtaining large profits is called

Herbert Hoover was the head of what agency during WWI?

Central and southern Great Plains when the region suffered from drought and dust storms was the

When stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash they called it

Hoover's plan to reverse the economic downturn included

The periodic growth and contraction of the economy

President Hoover favored the idea of rugged individualism which meant

1929-1941 where the economy faltered and unemployment soared was called

Policy during the Depression where local & state govts act as primary agents of economic relief