October 29, 1929- a day that stocks took the deepest dive.
What is "Black Tuesday?"
100
Communities formed on public lands by homeless people
What are shantytowns?
100
Hoover's attempts to increase government-financed building projects.
What are public works?
100
A period of long term rising stock prices.
What is a Bull Market?
100
set up by charitiable organizations would deliver food to hungry people.
What are soup kitchens?
200
This major issue during the 1928 Presidential election pitted the "Dry" Hoover against the "Wet" Smith.
What is Prohibition?
200
The first full-length animated film.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
200
This organization led hunger marches in attempts to persuade Americans to give up democracy.
What is the American Communists Party?
200
Steinbeck wrote this book about an Oklahoma family who was fleeing to California in search of a better life.. Later it became a movie
What is the Grapes of Wrath?
200
He was called in to clear the buildings in D.C. of homeless veterans but instead liquidated the entire city of them
Who is General MacArthur?
300
A major cause of the Depression- as a result of factories ending up with large amounts of surplus consumer goods.
What is overproduction?
300
Allowing listeners to escape their world and enter a more exciting life, these shows were eventually named for their sponsors.
What are soap operas?
300
These marchers walked to Washington D.C. in attempts to receive early payment of their benefits.
What is the "Bonus Army?"
300
A system of buying and selling shares of companies.
What is a stock market?
300
This popular masked hero often fought injustice with Silver.
Who is The Lone Ranger?
400
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What is lent money to speculators and invested depositors money into the stock market?
400
Landlords often needed the assistance of these people when tenants refused to leave their homes.
Who are baliffs?
400
Although it did little to relieve the economic pressure, Congress passed this act which called for $1.5 billion dollars to be spent on public works and $300 million for loans to the states.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
400
This movie starred actress Vivien Leigh, who captivated audiences with her character's unassailable will to survive after the Civil War.
What is Gone with the Wind?
400
By not raising interest rates to curb the excessive speculation, this group kept its rates low throughout the 1920s.
What is the Federal Reserve?
500
Matters grew worse for the farming industry when this tariff raised rates to the highest in American History.
What is the Hawley-Smooth Tariff?
500
Wood's most famous painting, depicting a stern farmer and his daughter in front of their farm house, which portrays a tribute to the Midwesterners tenacity to overcome their struggles while also poking fun at them.
What is American Gothic?
500
Created by Hoover, established a pool of money to enable troubled banks to loan money within their local communities.
What is the National Credit Corporation? N.C.C.
500
When a stock price began to fall below it's original cost, a broker would issue one of these in order to protect the value of the loan.
What is a margin call?
500
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