The Poor
During the Depression, charitable organizations tried to help the urban poor by opening bread lines and these.
What are soup kitchens?
Herbert Hoover beat this candidate in the election of 1928.
Who was Alfred E. Smith?
Borrowing money to help pay for shares of stock is known as this.
What is buying on margin?
A government system of giving money or food to the poor.
What is direct relief?
This was the most widely used barometer of the stock market's health.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
This is the name given to men and boys that rode the rails searching for work.
What are hoboes?
Herbert Hoover ran for president in 1932, as did this person.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The day the stock market crashed was known as this.
What is Black Tuesday?
An unintended effect of this tariff was a substantial decrease in U.S. exports.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
The region hardest hit by the drought in the early 30s, including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, was known as this.
What is the Dust Bowl?
World War I veterans and their families made up this group that marched on Washington.
What is the Bonus Army?
In 1929, Hoover was able to authorize the construction of this, which would later bear his name.
What is the Boulder Dam?
The main purpose of this entity was to give emergency help to large businesses.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
This was the practice of the government buying surplus crops at guaranteed prices and selling them on the world market.
What were price supports?
At a time when money was tight, many families entertained themselves by staying at home and playing board games, such as this one invented in 1933.
What is Monopoly?
The farmers and sharecroppers who left the Dust Bowl to find work in the west were known as this.
What are Okies?
To disband the war veterans that had marched on Washington, Hoover sent in the army under the control of this person.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
Buying stocks on the chance of a quick profit without considering risks is known as this.
What is speculation?
The aim of this act was to prevent farmers and homeowners from losing their property.
What was the Federal Home Loan Bank Act?
These sons of poor farmers, out-of-work miners, and wealthy parents who had lost everything rode America's freight trains across the country.
Who were "Hoover tourists"?
Shantytowns became known as this during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
Hoover filled this government position under presidents Harding and Coolidge.
What was the Secretary of Commerce?
This organization of farm cooperatives was backed by President Hoover and was intended to raise crop prices by helping members to buy crops and keep them off the market temporarily until prices rose.
What was the Federal Farm Board.
Soon after the stock market crash, Hoover called together key leaders in the fields of business, labor, and this to ask them to work together to find solutions to the nations economic woes.
What is banking?
This unemployed cannery worker from Oregon led the Bonus Army to the nation's capital.
Who was Walter Waters?