The Great Depression
This is considered the start of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash
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What is the cost of a woman's raincoat? 5 cents or $3.00
What is $3.00
True or False: The Dust Bowl was caused by too much rain.
False
What is it called when you buy items without the money to pay for it?
True or False: The New Deal was designed to help the Rich get their jobs back.
False - it was designed to help the poor
What is the cost of a kid's Wagon? 4 dollars or 8 dollars
What is 4 dollars
This President thought by doing nothing, the economy would fix itself.
Who is Herbert Hoover.
Who was the photographer that took pictures of the migrant workers?
Who is Dorothea Lange
What happened to the United States banks after the stock market crash?
The banks ran out of money and some had to close.
True or False: FDR was the only President to serve 4 terms in office (12 years).
True
What was the cost of a man's fine leather jacket? 2 dollars or 7 dollars
What is 7 dollars
This Act in 1935 provided (and still provides today) money for people after they have retired.
What is Social Security Act or SSA
What state did many of the migrant workers travel to looking for jobs?
What is California
What was the nickname for the day the stock market crashed?
What is Black Tuesday.
What was the name of FDR's radio broadcasts were he spoke to all of America like they were his friends.
What are The Fireside Chats
What was the cost of a Singer Sewing Machine? 12 dollars or 22 dollars
What is 22 dollars
This group of men ages 18 - 26 learned forestry skills t help improve our national forest and national parks during the 1930's. ___ ____ C.
What is the CCC.
Name one way families were affected by The Dust Bowl?
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Name one way that families coped with little to no money during The Great Depression?
Reusing what they had, sharing supplies, going to food kitchens to get food, spending time with others to get emotional support.
What is the name of the disease that kept FDR in a wheelchair most of his life?
What is polio.
How Much money would the average factory worker make in a week? 15 dollars or 25 dollars
What is 15 dollars
What is overgrazing?
When the fields and/or grasslands are too wore down for new plants to grow back.
Name one way kids were affected by The Dust Bowl?
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