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Causes of the Great Depression
Effects of the Great Depression
Hoover's Response
Great Plains and the South
Veterans
100
how consumption grew and more people were able to buy wants, not just needs
What is credit?
100
many of these failed because they ran out of people's savings
What are banks?
100
reliance on local and state governments
What is localism?
100
unable to grow crops in the Great Plains
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
veterans from this war marched on Washington in 1932
What is WWI?
200
hands-off economy policy
What is laissez-faire or capitalism?
200
rate of lost jobs increased
What is unemployment?
200
reliance on private individuals and companies for relief
What is volunteerism?
200
reason for the Dust Bowl, farmers' fault
What is overproducing the land?
200
those veterans who marched on Washington demanding payments in 1932
What is the Bonus Army?
300
this political party does not favor government involvement in the economy
What is Republican?
300
group that had the largest rate of unemployment
Who are African Americans?
300
wasn't actually Hoover's idea, but brought jobs and electricity to the Southwest
What is the Hoover Dam?
300
Refugees from the dust bowl
Who are Okies?
300
bill proposed to speed up veterans bonus payments
What is the Patman Bill?
400
during the Great Depression, the country was stuck in the trough of this
What is the business cycle?
400
group that had a hard time getting prices up of the "goods" they created
Who are farmers?
400
money would flow from the top to the bottom
What is trickle-down economics?
400
Author of "The Grapes of Wrath" depicting Okie migration
Who is John Steinbeck?
400
President during Bonus Army march, his reaction cost him re-election
Who is Herbert Hoover
500
Day, Date, and Year the stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929
500
desire to encourage Americans to purchase American goods, but made depression worse
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
500
government organization which gave federal money to banks and big businesses
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
500
efforts by the government to encourage or coerce Mexicans to return to Mexico
What is repatriation?
500
General who "burned out" the veterans from the capital
Who is Douglas MacArthur?