Stock Market
Causes
Hard Times
Survival
Miscellaneous
100
The term for a place where stocks are bought and sold.
What is a stock market?
100
The term for borrowed money.
What is credit?
100
As a result of less spending, factories had to reduce their making of goods, also known as __________.
What is production?
100
These people were able to find jobs easier than men.
Who are women and children?
100
The term that means the condition of being out of work.
What is unemployment?
200
People who own stock are called investors or ___________.
What is a stockholder?
200
When people could not pay back their loans, these places suffered and some were forced to close.
What is a bank?
200
By 1932, ____% of workers were unemployed.
What is 25?
200
People stood in these for hours waiting for soup and bread.
What is a breadline?
200
The president during the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
October 29, 1929 is known as this.
What is "Black Tuesday"?
300
This is a tax on goods that are produced in other countries and sold in the U.S.
What is a tariff?
300
Many people faced losing their homes and hunger. This can be known as ___________.
What is poverty?
300
Homeless people built shelters that were nicknamed this.
What is a shantytown?
300
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the governor of this state.
Where is New York?
400
When stock prices fall quickly and investors panic and sell their stock, this is called a ________.
What is a crash?
400
The high tarrif was meant to reduce competition for these people.
Who are farmers?
400
President Hoover asked business leaders to create jobs by constructing ________ and public buildings.
What are roads?
400
"Hoover blankets" were actually made of this.
What is a newspaper?
400
Empty pockets turned inside out were called ______.
What is a Hoover flag?
500
The New York Stock Exchange is located on _______Street in New York, New York.
What is Wall Street?
500
Between 1929 and 1934, world trade dropped by ____ %.
What is 66?
500
The RFC stands for this.
What is Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
500
Shantytowns eventually became nicknamed this.
What is a Hooverville?
500
This is the amount of shares that were traded on "Black Tuesday".
What is 16 million?
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