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This was FDR's series of federal initiatives to combat the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
This was why the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was created.
What is finance emergency loans to banks and large businesses?
What is riding the rods?
This serves as a barometer of the economy's health.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
This percent of Americans were unemployed by 1933.
What was 25%?
What was the US's entry into WWII?
This was a camp where hoboes gathered, rested, and shared resources.
What is a hobo jungle?
This natural disaster worsened the agricultural economy in the Midwest.
What is droughts?
This was how hoboes typically prepared food in Hobo Jungles.
Buying on margin and speculation were major factors in making the stock market look like this.
What is prosperous despite underlying economic problems?
Immigration Policies were not a cause of this economic crisis.
What is the Great Depression?
These were makeshift communities of shacks that appeared during the Great Depression,
What were Hoovervilles?
What was he believed it would fix itself?
This caused issues for farmers post WWI and contributed to financial issues of the 1930s.
What was overproduction leading to falling prices?
This was the consequence to hoboes who were arrested for illegally riding trains.
What is they could be sentenced to jail or forced labor?
Approximately this many people became hoboes during the Great Depression.
What is 2,000,000 people?
What is falling from the train and getting killed?
Hoboglyphs were used for this purpose.
What is to communicate messages and warnings to other hoboes?
This worsened as a result of the Hawley Smoot Tariff Act of 1930.
What was unemployment as countries retaliated with their own tariffs?
A group of WWI veterans who marched on DC to demand early payment of a bonus promised for military compensation.
Who was the Bonus Army?
Hoboes primarily 'rode the rails' for this reason.
What is to search for work and economic opportunities?
There were two primary causes to the Dust Bowl.
What were poor farming practices and severe drought?
This was the day the stock market crashed.
What was Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929.
He believed the economy would right itself with no government involvement.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
All relationships between hoboes and families during the Great Depression were bad. True or False
What is False-they often helped each other.