Depression Begins

The Sound and the Fury was the first television show to be aired during the Depression.

Approximately how many Americans went to the movies each week during the 1930s?

What term refers to the government spending more money than it brings in during a year?

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised the average tariff rate to the highest level in American history

What novel, written by William Faulkner, used the new stream of consciousness technique?

What percentage of the workforce was unemployed by 1933?

After WWI, Congress had enacted a $1,000 bonus for each veteran, to be distributed in 1945.

What new aspect of art/media resulted in the creation of Life magazine in 1936?

Congress could have helped prevent the Great Depression by lowering interest rates.

What area did the "Dust Bowl" encompass?

What group began to organize hunger marches and rallies in the early 1930s?

What were the results of the Election of 1928?

Hoover believed American Individualism was the best social, political, and economic system.

What takes place when many depositors withdraw their money from a bank at the same time?

What were Hoovervilles?