Warning Signs of GD
Impact of GD
Dust Bowl
Bonus March
President Hoover
The Stock Market
100
Causes of the Great Depression that related to government actions.
What are the lowering of interest rates (encouraging people and companies to borrow more than they could afford) and raising the tariff (hurting world trade as other countries also put a tax on our goods)?
100
Ways that people's lives were impacted by Great Depression.
What is see lesson in Schoology, Week 11 Tuesday folder?
100
The Dust Bowl happened here.
What is Central and southern plain states like Texas and Oklahoma.
100
The Bonus Marchers (the people) were this.
What is WWI Veterans?
100
Communities of makeshift shacks built by homeless Americans during the Great Depression were nicknamed this as an insult to President Hoover.
What is Hoovervilles?
100
The year the stock market crashed.
What is 1929?
200
Many people used this in the 1920s to purchase many of the new consumer goods giving the appearance of economic success but really there was uneven distribution of wealth in the 1920s.
What is an installment plan (credit)?
200
Charities, not the government, set up these during the early Great Depression to help feed poor.
What are soup kitchens?
200
Place many migrant workers were going to from the Dust Bowl for a chance at a better life.
What is California?
200
The Bonus Marchers went to Washington DC to lobby/support this.
What is Congress and President to pass a bill that would pay the marchers' WWI bonuses earlier?
200
Issue that hurt Hoover's opponent (Alfred Smith) in the 1928 Presidential election.
What is religion (Smith was criticized for being Catholic)?
200
This happened on Black Tuesday.
What is investors panicked and sold millions of shares causing the greatest stock drop?
300
How overproduction and falling demand relate to each other and contributed to the Great Depression.
What is that companies were producing more products than were needed (overproduction) which lead to falling demand causing companies to layoff workers (increased unemployment = less buying = less need for works = more unemployment and round and round)?
300
Effect of Great Depression on many banks and businesses.
What is failed?
300
This group suffered from the Great Depression in the early 1920s before the rest of the country.
Who are farmers?
300
The government's reaction to the Bonus Marchers who refused to leave Washington DC after the Bonus Bill was vetoed by President Hoover.
What is the forcible removal of the Bonus Marchers by US troops and the burning of their temporary settlement in DC.?
300
Reason Hoover was reluctant to directly involve the government in helping with the Great Depression.
What is he believed that business and the business cycle would fix the economy (Laissez-faire) and that people could fix there situation with hard work (rugged individualism)?
300
Reason for stock market crash.
What is many people invested in the stock market with borrowed money (buying on margin) they could not afford to lose and they started selling their shares in a panicked rush?
400
Cause of the Great Depression that related to trying to "get rich quick" on the stock market.
What is speculation?
400
Effect of Great Depression on people's incomes.
What is they decreased?
400
Farmers help cause the Dust Bowl by doing these things.
What is over-farming and removal of thick grass that protected soil from erosion and wind?
400
Reason many Bonus Marchers stayed in Washington DC and created a makeshift settlement/town.
What is they had no homes to return to if they left.
400
Major reasons Hoover lost reelection in 1932.
What is Hoover's approach of voluntary economic changes to deal with the Great Depression and trickle-down economics were not working/help people?
400
Part of the business cycle that would be larger to show a depression.
What is the trough?
500
Ways the uneven distribution of the nation’s wealth lead to the depression.
What is farmers' debt from overproduction and shrinking demand, ease of getting credit and people falling into debt, and the wealthy people's spending on consumer goods was not enough to help economy.
500
These ethnic groups suffered more than whites because they were being pushed out jobs by unemployed whites who now wanted those jobs typically reserved for these groups.
Who are African, Mexican, and Native Americans?
500
Environmental issues (weather) that contributed to the Dust Bowl.
What are drought and high winds?
500
Influence/impact of the Bonus Marchers.
What are the creation of the GI Bill, the 1932 Presidential election, and later marches on Washington (like for civil rights)?
500
Hoover's late attempts (programs) to provide government help for the Great Depression.
What are the National Credit Corporation (help for struggling banks) and Reconstruction Finance Corporation (loans for financial, business, and agricultural institutions)?
500
Reason banks were first impacted by stock market crash.
What is panicked people began "runs" on banks to remove their savings and investments out of fear they would lose their money which caused banks to close?