Great Depression Review

Question 1

Which of these is NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

President Franklin Roosevelt

Question 2

What's the name of the program that was supposed to help with the problems of Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 3

What is the term for not having enough people to buy your products?

Accepted Answer

Underconsumption

Question 4

What did the unemployment rate rise to by 1932?

Accepted Answer

25%

Question 5

Homeless people moved into camps of homemade shacks named ____?

Accepted Answer

Hoovervilles

Question 6

Human causes of the dust bowl does NOT include which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Drought

Question 7

What is the term for creating too much of something?

Accepted Answer

Overproduction

Question 8

Who was elected president in 1932?

Accepted Answer

Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)

Question 9

What encouraged people in the 1920s to buy more than they could afford?

Accepted Answer

Credit

Question 10

Who was president at the beginning of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 11

Environmental causes of the dust bowl does NOT include which of the following?

Accepted Answer

All of these are environmental causes of the dust bowl

Question 12

What is a nickname for the day the stock market crashed?

Accepted Answer

Black Tuesday

Question 13

What part of the US was affected by the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

Western America

Question 14

Banks loaned money for people to buy stock

Accepted Answer

buying on margin

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