Category One
Who was elected president in 1929?
Herbert Hoover
What is Black Tuesday?
The day the stock market crashed.
How long did the Great Depression last? Bonus 300 if you know the exact years.
Twelve years. 1929-1941
Who is FDR's wife/cousin?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Why did many people not support what FDR was doing to fix the Great Depression?
Answers may vary.
What did Herbert promise that he was going to do as president during his inauguration?
"End poverty in America"
What does the term "hobo" mean and who were typically hobos?
It meant homeless boy and they were typically single men looking for work in other towns by hopping trains.
What word means unable to pay debts?
Bankrupt
What were FDR's firechats?
When he would go on the radio to communicate with the country and he would often be sitting next to a fire.
What was FDR's plan called to fix the Great Depression?
The New Deal
How do you get someone off of the Supreme Court?
You can't, they have to die. They are technically allowed to resign but it rarely happens.
What did a "Blue Eagle" stamp mean?
The company was fair to its workers.
The rest of the world was impacted by the American Great Depression. How?
Answers may vary.
Why were people hiding money under their mattresses during the Great Depression?
Because they did not trust banks.
What type of pay is still in place in the United States that ensures that Americans are being paid a fair amount no matter how small of a job.
Minimum wage.
What was the primary purpose for the creations of dams in rural communities?
To generate electricity.
What is the supreme court and how many supreme court justices are there?
Nine. Answers may vary for first part of question.
Education rates dropped dramatically due to the Great Depression, what was the primary reason?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Students would drop out of school to get a job to support their family.
What causes a stock to lose value?
People have to sell the stock, the more stocks available, the less each is worth.
Explain how people losing their jobs during the Great Depression led to more people losing their jobs during the Great Depression.
Answers may vary. Basically, a domino effect.
Why did the Dust Bowl happen?
Farmers were over farming and grazing, so when a drought came, the soil turned to dust and destroyed crops. Basically, they didn't know what they were doing.
Even if you kept your job during the Great Depression, how were you severely impacted by the job loss.
You were often forces to take lower wages just to keep your job.
What coal mining state was most effected by the Great Depression as a whole?
What plains state was most effected by the Dust Bowl?
West Virginia and Oklahoma.
What is the sum of money that you are guaranteed to be paid when you retire, like, the pay checks that you will receive for the rest of your life. Only some jobs offer this.
DAILY DOUBLE
A pension.
How did the Great Depression negatively impact California?
People from the plains states fled to California because of the Dust Bowl. Californians did not like this because they took many of their jobs.