US History-Chapter 18

President Hoover hoped that public works would

Most people during the Depression were able to enjoy two popular forms of entertainment movies

During the Depression, charities set up_____ to give poor people a meal

The stock market took it's steepest dive on October 29, 1929 the day known as

Hoover opposed direct federal relief to the unemployed because he believed that

In order to protect loans made by stockbrokers to investors who bought stocks on margin brokers

In 1929 the top 5% of all households earned 30% of the nation's income, which is

Some banks suffered more losses than they could absorb and

Buying on margin was a method of buying stocks

When the Senate voted down the bonus bill that promised $1,000 to each veteran, the veterans...

The National Credit Cooperation tried to rescue troubled banks by allowing them to

The Emergency Relief and Construction Act provided

Thousands of WW1 veterans came to Washington in 1932 to lobby Congress to

During the Great Depression, many farmers turned their farms over to

Newly homeless people put up communities of shacks they called

In May 1932, the Senate voted down a bill that would have

Most economists agree that a key cause of the Depression was

Who did artists and writers of the 1930 often use in their attempts to portray life around them

During the Great Depression, when a bank collapsed,

Stock prices first began to decline in late 1929 because

A major contribution to Hoover's landslide victory in the 1928 election was

Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops because

The stock market crash weakened the nation's banks because

The purpose of the reconstruction Finance Corporation was to

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff dampened commerce