The beginning
This crashed at the beginning of the Great Depression
What is the stock market?
(When it crashed everyone who had money invested lost it.)
Most American families had enough money to get by. (true or false)
What is true?
(25% of Americans couldn't get by with what they had)
This place lost all of the money that was there and made all of the people very upset.
What are Banks?
(When people would borrow money they never gave it back, causing the banks to lose money.)
Millions of Americans lost their jobs from the depression (True or false)
What is True?
(About 13 million Americans lost their jobs.)
This US president was in office at the start of the Great depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
(Many Americans thought that he was the reason the Great depression started.)
This statistic showed that this dropped by 25% when factories started to downsize.
What is employment?
What is our debt?
This event had winds up to 65 miles per hour, with electricity that could power up a whole city. It gave people horrible illnesses and diseases and forced them to move from the state.
What are dust bowls?
(The dust bowls killed many people in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and many other states that had farms and fields)
The best job that you could get during the depression
What is anything?
(Most Americans didn't even have jobs at the time)
This president was elected and went into office in the middle of the depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
(He claimed that he would fix the depression and help all of those who were struggling.)
The thing people would use to pay for food, bills, stuff, etc.
What is credit?
(This is one of the reasons that the Great depression started)
this was the place that the Government gives families financial assistance.
What is Welfare?
(Welfare was the building that we saw in the movie where they would go in and get money if they didn't have enough)
This was where the dust bowls originated from
What is the Great Plains?
(This is because of how dusty they were)
People did this in hopes of getting better pay or better work.
what are riots?
(These were mostly unsuccessful and sometimes even life threatening)
This statistic showed that this rate severely increased during the depression for people.
What is suicide and mortality rate?
This was the year that the great depression started
What is 1929?
the amount of states that had no banks open by the middle of the depression.
28 states
This was built to give many men more work so they could pay off their bills.
What is the Hoover Dam?
(Hoover did this project to give men jobs because this was when unemployment was popular)
This organization was people picking and choosing who was going to work that day
What is the WPA?
This thing brought people together in this desperate time.
what is the radio?
This is the day that the stock market crashed.
what is october 29th 1929?
(better known as black Tuesday)
The amount of credit that Americans used before the depression.
Billions of dollars
(This was why so much money was being borrowed.)
These villages were made for homeless Americans struggling with finding a place to live.
What are hoovervilles?
(They got the name because the people blamed President Hoover for the cause of the depression)
The statistics show that this percentage of Americans had jobs during this time.
What is 75%?
(Most Americans in the whole country did have a job, but they may not have been making a lot.)
This was how many farmers had left the states that had dust bowls to make more money.
250,000 farmers left the states.