Hoover
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100

The one building project during the Great Depression attributed to Hoover

What is the Hoover Dam

100

The general name given to veterans who came to DC to protest

What is Bonus Army

100

This was used by many Americans in the 1920s to buy luxury goods

What is Credit or Installment Plans (buying on time)

100

A derogatory name for the people who tried to escape the Dust Bowl by moving from the midwest to the west coast

Who are Okies or Arkies

100

This board game was started as a form of amusement during the Great Depression

What is Monopoly

200

Ran against Hoover in 1928

What is Alfred Smith

200

The full name of what the protesters who came to DC were called

What is Bonus Expeditionary Force

200

The date of Black Tuesday

What is Oct. 29, 1929

200

Groups of shacks sprang up due to evictions. Give both names for these shacks.

What is Shantytowns, Hoovervilles

200

This road took the people fleeing the Dust Bowl away from the area

What is Route 66

300

Hoover believed in this philosophy which said that people should succeed through their own efforts.

What is rugged individualism

300

The name of the bill that the protesters were hoping would pass Congress

What is Patman Bill

300

Buying on margin and ______________ were two stock market practices that increased the devastating effects of the stock market crash.

What is Speculation

300

Many people left _____ ________ (it's a region) and traveled to _________ due to the Dust Bowl.

What is Great Plains, California

300

Two causes of the Dust Bowl

What is Drought, Overuse of the land

400

The name for inside out empty pockets

What is Hoover flags

400
The war that the protesters had participated in.

What is WWI

400

The name of a 1930 tax on foreign manufactured and agricultural products

What is Hawley-Smoot Tariff

400

Many people who did not have enough to eat looked for food at these two places.

What is soup kitchens and bread lines

400

1. Author of The Grapes of Wrath

What is John Steinbeck 

500

Hoover's attempt to keep large companies like banks and insurance companies afloat

What is Reconstruction Finance Corporation

500

The general in charge of disbanding the protesters

What is MacArthur

500

Along with tariffs, these war debts prevented US goods from being sold overseas.

What is reparations

500

The McNary-Haugen bill tried to create these to help the farmers get higher payments for their goods

What is price supports

500

These teenagers were forced to leave home to look for work to support their families

What is Hoover Tourists

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