The Big Crash
The crash of the New York Stock Exchange is considered the beginning of what economic crisis?
The Great Depression
At the beginning of the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover called on big businesses and those still holding wealth to donate what they could to help those in need. What is this policy called?
Volunteerism
As things continue to worsen, Hoover decides to finally take action and signs off on a program which issued just over $1 B to large corporations and railroads to try to reinvigorate the economy. What is this program called?
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Was the Dust Bowl a natural event or man-made?
Man-Made
What city did the Bonus Army march on?
Washington D.C.
Following the crash, this term, which measures the amount of people holding a job, skyrocketed.
Unemployment
Who did Herbert Hoover believe was responsible to solve the individual problems of the American public?
Individuals
What is the economic theory, which the RFC relies on, believes injecting money at the top of the economic pyramid will eventually help those at the bottom?
Trickle Down Economics
Due to the collapse of farmable land, many families lost the ability to keep their land and homes and were forced to migrate to other areas in the United States. What area did these families most often migrate to?
California
What was it that the Bonus Army marchers wanted?
Immediate cash payments
As more people lost their jobs, they also lost their houses. What was the name of the communities of makeshift homes that sprung up around the outskirts of cities?
Hoovervilles
Even though Herbert Hoover didn't believe the federal government was responsible, he did call on what bodies to help their citizens?
State and local governments
The RFC does not provide the needed relief as those at the top of big business do what with their received money?
Hide it or Move it overseas/off-shore
What were these migrants called?
Okies
What prominent WWI general was put in charge of clearing the Bonus Army from their camps?
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
What nickname is given to the day the market crashed?
Black Tuesday
Hoover enacted a policy of forcibly removing Mexican immigrants and their naturalized children out of the United States and back to Mexico. What is this policy called?
Repatriation
What project, which was actually approved by Congress prior to Hoover’s election, brought much needed jobs to the Southwest?
The Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
What folk singer often wrote songs about the migrating Americans?
Woody Guthrie
What year was the Bonus Army supposed to wait to in order to receive their first cash payments?
1945
The crash happened on this date.
October 29, 1929
A tariff is a tax of imports and exports. What tariff did Hoover sign into law which eventually backfired and harmed the economy more than it helped?
Smoot-Hawley Tariff/Act
Due to the depression across Europe, what political ideology begins to rise across Europe, especially in places like Italy and Germany?
Fascism
What famous highway did the migrants most often travel down?
Route 66
All chance of Hoover winning re-election vanished after the Bonus Army incident and in 1932 America elected who as president?
Franklin D. Roosevelt/FDR