American History Chapter 18 Review for Test

Which Republican won the 1928 presidential election?

What bill did Hoover reluctantly sign to pay for public works projects & direct relief?

People during the Great Depression used what form of entertainment to escape everyday life?

What is the name of Grant Wood's best known painting?

Term referring to when many bank depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time.

Famous photographer who took pictures of life in the Great Depression & how it affected people.

What term means money given directly to impoverished families?

Term meaning that only a small cash down payment was made when buying a stock.

Who brought Mickey Mouse to life and produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? 

Term means the act of buying stocks at great risk, with the anticipation that prices will rise.

What term refers to government financed building projects?

Term that means that a broker is demanding an investor repay a loan at once.

What are daytime radio dramas that carried their story lines from day to day?

Who wrote the "Grapes of Wrath," a novel that tells the story of a Dust Bowl family?

Term meaning a long period of rising stock prices.

A system for buying and selling stocks in corporations.

What nick-name was given to the shantytowns that the homeless lived in?

In addition to hurting investors, the stock market crash also devastated these institutions?

What law raised the average tariff rate to the highest level in American History?

Term for the homeless & unemployed who took to riding the nation's railroads across the nation.

What term means the taking of ownership of land and evicting the family living on it?

What name was given to migrants leaving dust bowl states to find work in states like California