President Herbert Hoover
Women/ Families in the Great Depression
Asian Americans in Hard Times
Mexican Americans in Depression America
Causes of the Great Depression
100
What did President Hoover believe about the nation?
That the nation faced prosperity.
100
Where was the proper place for women?
Home.
100
State that the largest Japanese and Chinese Americans population reside?
California.
100
What term was used to identify some Mexican Americans?
Chicano.
100
What crashed in the Great Depression?
Stock Market.
200
What did President Hoover attempt to expand?
The policies he had advocated during his 8 years as secretary of commerce and who would sustain a stable economy.
200
Which group of women had advantages in the work force?
White women.
200
College graduates worked at family what?
Fruit stands.
200
What unfortunately rose quickly for Mexican Americans?
Unemployment.
200
What was the name of the day that the Stock Market crashed?
Black Tuesday.
300
The Hawley - Smoot Tariff of 1930 increased protection on what?
75 farm products.
300
Who suffered from unemployment because of a great reduction of domestic jobs?
Black women.
300
Which league was formed by Japanese American businessmen?
The Japanese American citizens league.
300
What were Mexican Americans forced to do?
Officials forced them to depart the country.
300
What industry suffered greatly?
Farming.
400
Explain the Agricultural Marketing Act that President Hoover proposed.
It established the first major government program to help farmers maintain prices.
400
Which group was a primary focus of intellectual writers, popular writers, and photographers portray during the Depression?
Poor rural families.
400
In California, younger men and women organized what?
Japanese American Democratic clubs.
400
Act that sent Mexican - American immigrants back to Mexico to make more jobs available for white Americans?
Mexican Repatriation Act.
400
What greatly failed in the 20th century?
Banks.
500
What was Hoover's first response to the Great Depression?
To attempt to restore public confidence in the economy.
500
Why did professional opportunities for women decline?
Unemployed men began moving into professions such as teaching and social work.
500
What did the Japanese American Democratic clubs work for?
Laws protesting racial and ethnic minorities for discrimination.
500
What did Latinos not have access to?
American schools.
500
What caused the European demand for American goods to decline?
High American tariffs.
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