Causes of the Great Depression
What term describes the practice of buying stocks with borrowed money, contributing to the stock market crash?
What is margin buying?
What natural disaster in the 1930s exacerbated the agricultural crisis and led to mass migration?
Wbhat is dust bowl
What were makeshift shantytowns built by homeless people during the Great Depression commonly called?
What are Hoovervilles?
What was the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s series of programs aimed at combating the Great Depression?
What is the New Deal?
Which senator was a vocal critic of the New Deal and proposed the "Share Our Wealth" program?
Who is Huey Long?
What economic problem was caused by factories producing more goods than could be sold?
What is overproduction?
Which region of the United States was most affected by the Dust Bowl?
what is the Great Plains
What was the unemployment rate during the peak of the Great Depression?
What is approximately 25%?
What agency was created to provide jobs and stimulate the economy by building public works?
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
What was the attempt by FDR to put more of his justices on the supreme court to try to get his programs approved?
What is court packing
What led to a decrease in consumer spending and purchasing power during the Great Depression?
What is underconsumption?
What farming practice contributed to the Dust Bowl by removing protective grasses from the soil?
What is over-farming?
What was the term for the severe economic downturn that began in 1929?
What is the Great Depression?
What program aimed to provide financial assistance to farmers and stabilize agricultural prices?
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Name the 1935 act that established the National Labor Relations Board and protected workers' rights to unionize.
What is the wagner act
What was the year of the infamous stock market crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
What is 1929?
What were the primary destinations for families fleeing the Dust Bowl?
What are California and other western states?
How did the Great Depression affect the political landscape in the United States?
What is increased support for government intervention and social welfare programs?
What New Deal program focused on providing electricity to rural areas?
What is the Rural Electrification Administration (REA)?
Who is known as the Father of Jazz?
Who is Louis Armstrong
What term refers to the risky investments and speculative buying that inflated stock prices before the crash?
What is stock market speculation?
Name the novel by John Steinbeck that depicts the struggles of Dust Bowl migrants.
What is "The Grapes of Wrath"?
What event helped to end the Great Depression by revitalizing the U.S. economy?
What is World War II?
Name the New Deal program that created a system of insurance for the elderly, unemployed, and disabled.
What is Social Security?
What city was the birthplace of jazz?
Harlem, NYNY