Stock Market
What year did the stock market crash and the Great Depression begin?
1929
What war did the Veterans who made up the "Bonus Army" participate in?
World War 1
What was the Dust Bowl?
A long period of bad weather and dust storms in the midwest
What were the makeshift homeless communities called?
Hint: Named after a president
Hoovervilles
What President was responsible for creating the "New Deal" to help America recover?
FDR
What do we call the day that Wall Street crashed in 1929?
Black Tuesday
What did the army want?
They wanted their extra pay (bonus) from the war early to help them through the depression.
What caused the dust storms?
Drought/lack of rain and overfarming
Other than homes, what were some families also forced to give up because they weren't "affordable"?
Hint: Remember the budget activity!
Their kids
What was one of the two organizations created by the New Deal who helped employ millions of Americans
CCC or WPA
What effect did the crash have on banks?
Many were forced to close and people lost trust in them
What city did the protestors march on/protest in?
Washington DC
What was a common nickname for the migrant workers who wandered west in search of jobs?
Hint: Named after the state that many of them came from
Okies
Other then possibly being sent to an orphanage, how else might children have been affected by the Depression?
Drop out of school and forced to work
While the New Deal helped ease problems, what event truly started the end of the Great Depression?
The outbreak of WW2 in Europe
What happened to people's savings when banks closed?
They were gone forever/completely lost
How did President Hoover respond to the Bonus Army?
He sent the military and police to dipserse them leading to a conflict/riot
What west coast state did many of the migrant workers find themselves in?
California
What was the name for a crowd gathered at a soup kitchen?
Breadline
People had lost trust in banks after losing their savings, but FDR created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to put peoples minds at ease. What does it do?
Protects/Insures people savings in banks
Banks and the market failed after people panicked and tried withdrawing all of their money. What caused the people to panic?
Stock prices began dropping
How did Hoover's response to the veterans of the Bonus Army effect him in th next election?
It hurt him in the election, as he was seen as uncaring and he lost
What was the result of the Dust Bowl?
Less food and farmers losing their homes
How many people were unemployed at the worst of the Great Depression?
How did WW2 help reduce unemployment to almost 1% by 1944?
Men worked in the military and women worked in factories at home