Causes of the Great Depression
This practice of buying stocks with borrowed money contributed to the market crash.
Buying Margin
These makeshift communities of homeless people were named after the U.S. president blamed for the Depression.
(What are Hoovervilles?)
The Dust Bowl was a severe environmental disaster during the 1930s that affected the Great Plains region of the United States. It was characterized by what things?
1. Drought
2. Dust storms (Lack of not using the land)
3. Crop failure
4. Mass Migration of the great Plains moving to California
$100: Before becoming president, Hoover gained fame for organizing relief efforts during WWI.
1. Food Administration
This animated character made her first appearance in the 1930s, becoming an icon of the era.
(Who is Mickey Mouse?)
This date is known as "Black Tuesday," when the stock market crashed in 1929.
(What is October 29, 1929?)
The WPA was one of the New Deal programs aimed at providing this to unemployed Americans.
(What is jobs/work relief?
$200: This term was used to describe the severe dust storms that ravaged the Great Plains during the 1930s.
Black Blizzards
What is Laissez faire economics?
- Minimal government intervention
-Hoover believed in this
What two comic book characters where also created during this time.
Batman
Superman
High tariffs, like this 1930 act, worsened the global economic depression.
(What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
The Dust Bowl forced many families to migrate to this state, where they were often called "Okies."
(What is California?
$300: The worst year of the Dust Bowl, when the most intense dust storms occurred, was this year.
(What is 1935?)
$400: In 1932, thousands of WWI veterans known as this group marched on Washington, D.C., demanding early payment of their bonuses.
(Who are the Bonus Army?)
This film, released in 1939, featured a young girl’s journey to a magical land "somewhere over the rainbow."
Wizard of Oz
This environmental disaster, caused by severe drought and poor farming practices, devastated the Great Plains.
(What is the Dust Bowl?
This author wrote The Grapes of Wrath, a novel depicting the struggles of Dust Bowl migrants.
(Who is John Steinbeck?)
$400: Many families affected by the Dust Bowl migrated to this state, seeking agricultural work in its fertile valleys.
California
Who was the 31st President
Herbert Hoover
What would people turn to when trying to escape realities?
Movies / Radio
Banks failed during the Great Depression largely because they were unable to do this after the stock market crash.
(What is repay deposits to customers?)
These radio talks by FDR aimed to reassure Americans during the Great Depression.
(What are the Fireside Chats?)
What is one thing farmers do now due to the dust bowl.
$500: To combat the economic downturn, Hoover established this federal agency to provide emergency loans to banks, businesses, and state governments.
(What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?)
This genre of movie started to become more popular.
Comedies