CAUSES I
CAUSES II
HARD TIMES I
HARD TIMES II
HOOVER'S RESPONSE FAILS
100
Event that happened on October 29, 1929.
What is the stock market crashed?
100
According to Milton Friedman, an economist, what were the twin events that caused the Great Depression? TRIPLE BONUS
What is the stock market crashed and the lack of money circulating?
100
Definition of BREAD LINE.
What is the only place for the family to get a free scrap of food, where people lined up from handouts of charities or public agencies?
100
Who were the Okies? TRIPLE BONUS
Who are the Dust Bowl refugees/people who came from Oklahoma?
100
What is localism?
What is the policy whereby problems could best be solved at local and state level?
200
What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
What is the stock market crashed?
200
What was the yearly income of more than 60% of all the American families when the Great Depression started?
What is $2,000.00?
200
Jobs that wives were able to do during the Great Depression.
What is washing and ironing clothes, laboring as a maid?
200
What caused farm families to migrate when they were trapped in the Dust Bowl? NAME TWO. DOUBLE BONUS
What is they had lost their farms to the banks, destroyed opportunities, disaster of the Great Plains, dust storms?
200
Describe Hoover's policy towards depression.
What is "a policy of doing nothing, was no policy at all"?
300
What happened on Black Tuesday?
What is more than 16 billions of dollars were lost and whole fortunes were wiped out?
300
How did the EASY CREDIT hide problems?
What is Americans accumulated more debt?
300
What replaced milk?
What is water?
300
The majority of the people who migrated and left the midwestern and southern regions moved to?
What is California or the cities of the Northeast and Midwest?
300
Why did people call trucks "Hoover wagons"; campfires, "Hoover heaters"; cardboard boxes, "Hoover houses"?
What is the association of the President's name with suffering and Americans' negative feelings about their leader?
400
Describe business cycle. DOUBLE BONUS
What is the periodic growth and contraction of the economy?
400
State some of the problems that farmers faced when Hoover became the president?
What is farmers contracted huge debts by buying costly tractors and farm equipment and failing to sell their surpluses?
400
Americans who lost their jobs and ran through their savings had to do what in order to find a place to live?
What is selling their furniture, jewelry, moved to cheaper lodgings?
400
Birthrate plummeted to the lowest marks in American history due to what?
What is family distress?
400
What does RFC stand for and what is it? DOUBLE BONUS
What is the RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION, and what is the act of lending money to banks so that they could extend more loans to struggling businesses?
500
Describe the Hawley-Smoot Tariff.
What are the raised prices on foreign imports to such a level that they could not compete in the American market?
500
Hoover's political party.
What is Republicans?
500
What effect might a high unemployment rate have on the wages of Americans who still had jobs?
What is the demand for jobs was very high that employers were in a position to offer lower wages?
500
How did the depression take a toll on women, children, and minorities in America?
What is women shared in the anxiety and stress to take work to supplement their family's income, some children ran away from home and others quit school, and the minorities had to endure racism?
500
Explain the trickle-down economics theory.
What is the money poured into the top of the economic pyramid will trickle down to the base (banks, businessesmen, businessmen would hire more workers, and production and consumption would increase?
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