Dust Bowl
Who was the President of the United States during the start of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl?
Herbert Hoover
When was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
March 24, 1930
This was the final unemployment rate during the Great Depression
25%
What did people live in during poverty?
Cardboard shacks
This curve shows how much the actual distribution of income differs from an equal distribution.
The Lorenz Curve
What was the nickname for the huge dust storms of the Dust Bowl?
Black Blizzards
How many bank failures were there?
9,000
One of the reasons the World Economic Markets collapsed.
Massive debt from WWI
How many people were roaming and driving in boxcars, looking for jobs?
Hundreds of thousands
This is an example of a welfare program.
What were the WWI veterans called who marched on DC to demand their bonus pay?
Bonus Army
What year was the stock market crash?
1929
Wage income for workers who were lucky enough to have kept their jobs fell 42.5% between 1929 and 19__?
1933
How many people were starved during the great depression?(it's a number)
There were 20 documented cases
This number is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed persons by the number of persons in the civilian labor force.
What is the unemployment rate?
What regions were severely impacted by the Dust Bowl?
Mid West
How much money was in debt during The Great Depression? (In percent)
80%
True or False: There was a mass unemployment as an effect of The Great Depression.
True
True or False: Was there poverty during the Great Depression?
TRUE!!!
This group is not included in the unemployment rate.
Stay at homes, military, institutionalized, children, and those not looking.
What were the two main causes of the Dust Bowl?
Over Farming & Drought
What government policies went wrong during the great depression?
The Smoot Hawley Tariff
What year did the stock start to fall?
1930
What was the percentage of people in poverty?
66% in 1914 and 78% in 1932
This type of unemployment is caused when workers are replaced by machines.