US Black Tuesday and The Great Depression

Question 1

During the early years of the Great Depression, what did the fed. govt. NOT provide?

Accepted Answer

direct relief

Question 2

What does the stock market use to measure the stock market's health?

Accepted Answer

The Dow

Question 3

What did Americans nickname the shantytowns they lived in?

Accepted Answer

Hoovervilles

Question 4

What caused a major cats trophy in the farming industry in the 1930s?

Accepted Answer

Dust Bowl

Question 5

Which of the following states WAS NOT affected by the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

Idaho

Question 6

Just like Harding and Coolidge before him, which political party did Hoover belong to?

Accepted Answer

Republican

Question 7

What were the teenagers called who hopped on trains to escape from poverty?

Accepted Answer

wild boys

Question 8

Which of the following rose HIGH during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

unemployment

Question 9

Passed by Congress in 1930, which tax was the highest protective tariff in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Hawley-Smmot

Question 10

What industry does the federal government's PRICE SUPPORTS help out?

Accepted Answer

farming

Question 11

What day of the week did the stock market crash?

Accepted Answer

Tuesday

Question 12

When you buy on credit you pay now and buy later.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

When you buy stocks on MARGIN, how are you getting them?

Accepted Answer

borrowing $$$

Question 14

What year did the Great Depression begin?

Accepted Answer

1929

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