USH Chapter 9

What was the weather like in the years leading up to the Dust Bowl?

Thousands of families pack up & went where for work?

What did homeless people call newspapers they covered themselves with?

What public works project did Hoover propose as secretary of commerce?

About how many farms were lost to foreclosure from 1929-1932?

What are little towns consisting of shacks?

On what day were 16.4 million shares dumped onto the market?

What were the migrants who went to California called?

T/F: Conditions for African Americans & Latinos was especially difficult

Many men abandoned their families & became what?

What project was intended to raise crop prices by buying surplus crops & keeping them off the market until prices rose?

What were shantytowns called during the Great Depression?

The Bonus Army went to the capital to support what bill?

What were teenagers who wandered America jumping on trains called?

More than what percent of American families earned less than $2,500 annually between 1920-1929?

Who won the election of 1928?

T/F: The government provided various forms of direct relief during the early years of the Great Depression

In the early 1930s some cities refused to hired married women as ______?

What is it called to pay a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest?

T/F: Between 1928 & 1932, the suicide rate rose more than 30%

What was the most widely used barometer of the stock market’s health?

Which is NOT a way that farmers protested low crop prices?

What corporation loaned money to small banks to keep them from going bankrupt?

What were the thousands of veterans who marched on Washington in 1932 called?

T/F:  One out of every four workers was out of a job in 1933

What Act lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farm loans and avoid foreclosure?

When was the Great Depression?

What is the idea that people should succeed through their own efforts?

T/F: The government could not deport people of Mexican descent who were born in the U.S.

T/F: America was the only nation who suffered a depression