America's Money
unemployment
Price of Living
Industrial failures
President Hoover
100
debt securities issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to pay for the U.S. government’s borrowing needs.
What is Savings Bonds
100
The area where many people lost their jobs and homes due to depression.
What is Urban areas/Cities
100
The top factor for price hikes on food and the drop in demand for food after its end.
What is World War 1
100
The 2 Once most prosperous enterprises that failed during the depression
What are railroads and automobile enterprises.
100
Hoover signed this law that lowored mortgage rates and allowed farmers to refinance their farm loans to avoid foreclosure.
What is The Federal Home Loan Bank Act
200
The name of the day of October 29th, 1929 in which the stock market crashed and stocks and shares plumeted $16.4 million.
What is Black Tuesday
200
the area in which 400,000 farms went into forclosure between 1929 and 1932 due to the depression.
What is Rural Areas
200
this margin declined 40% due to the depression.
What is Crop Prices
200
The national profit count that dropped from $104 billion to $59 billion.
What is the Gross Domestic Product
200
Hoover authorized the construction of the world's tallest and the second largest dam.
What is The Boulder Dam
300
The most widely used barometer of the Stock Market's Health
What is Dow Jones Industrial Average
300
a bill passed by congress to support farmers by having the u.s. buy the surpluss of their crops and sell them internationally at a set price.
What is the McNary-Haugen bill.
300
11,000 of the nation's 25,000 of these closed in 1933
What are Banks
300
Hoover's most ambitious economic measure
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
400
The act of buying stocks and bonds on the chance of striking it rich
What is Speculation
400
a title for a period of rising stocks.
What is the "Bull Market"
400
An arrangement in which consumers often agreed to buy products now and pay for them later.
What is buying on credit.
400
The group of World War 1 veterans and their families that hoover disbanded.
What is the Bonus Army
500
the payment of a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
What is Buying on a Margin
500
factors faced by people who still held jobs during the depression
What are pay cuts and reduced hours.
500
The election in which Hoover won against Alfred E. Smith
What is the election of 1928.
M
e
n
u