Stock market
Banks and Money
Life During the Depression
Farming and the Dust Bowl
Government Response
100

The wealth, resources, and flow of money in a nation is known as what?

What is the economy?

100

People lost money and savings in this type of financial crisis

What is a banking crisis?

100

Sometimes children left school to do this.

What is work?

100

Farmers produced too much food after WWI, which led to _________________.

What is overproduction?

100

Programs implemented by FDR to help the country recover were called this.

Answer: What is the New Deal?

200

The sudden fall of stock prices causing financial panic is called this.

What is Stock Market Crash?

200

When banks ran out of money and had to close, it was called this.

What are Bank Failures?


200

Shantytowns built by homeless families were called this.
 

Answer: What are Hoovervilles?

200

Severe drought in the Great Plains caused crop failures during the Depression, otherwise known as _________________.
 

Answer: What is the Dust Bowl?

200

What was the President that implemented the New Deal, and how many years did he serve in office?

Who is FDR, and 12 years?

300

This is the day the stock market crashed in 1929.

What is Black Tuesday?

300

The banks operated loosely with_________ because they were optimistic about the economy.

Credit

300

Soup kitchens provided this to families who could not afford food.

What is a free meal?

300

Farmers losing their land due to inability to pay loans faced this.

What is foreclosure?

300

The president criticized for limited response at the start of the Depression.

Who is Herbert Hoover?

400

Banks ran out of money and closed because they too invested in the   ______________________________.

What is the stock market?

400

Banks Heavily Invested in _____________

Stocks

400

What was the cause of many families breaking apart?

What is stress and poverty?

400

Prices ___________, but that was not enough to restart the flow of the economy.

What is dropped or lowered?

400

The first New Deal focused more on _________________ issues, while the second wave of New Deal program aimed more toward___________________ issues.

What is short-term and long-term?

500

List one example of the effects of the great depression.

What is widespread famine, unequal wealth, and high unemployment?

500

What did people lose due to the Banking Crisis?

What is money/savings and confidence in the bank?

500

What's a synonym for Hooverville?

What is a shantytown?

500

Dust Bowl worsened conditions in the _____________________.

What is the great plains?

500

What New Deal program is in charge of jobs building roads, schools, and arts projects.

What is the WPA(Works Progress Administration)?