Random Things
A group of farmers and workers who believed that unlimited minting of silver coins would help them pay off debts by increasing inflation for others.
Who were the Free Silver Populists?
Nicknamed the Great Engineer, this man was also the first president from the West Coast- and one of the most hated.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This idea, which lets investors borrow money they don't have and then invest in future profit by buying large stocks with little personal money, is known as the leading cause of the Stock Market Crash.
What is buying on the margin?
The pivotal event and economic crisis that began the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
What not-so-prestigious education did Alfred E.Smith receive before he became New York Governor?
What is Tammany Hall?
While his emergency relief actions following this event may have been heroic for some, the African American communities called Hoover out for his racist/segregated relief efforts- fewer tents, blankets, and no rescues.
What is the Great Mississippi Flood?
The illegal practice of trading on the stock exchange and profiting due to the knowledge of confidential information.
What is insider trading?
What is a bank run?
The colloquial party name for white Protestant men, many of whom pro-KKK, who were active in the Prohibition.
Who were the Dry Democrats?
An agreement signed by Hoover and other countries that pledged to find a peaceful resolution to every international conflict.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
The date of the stock market crash (the date, year, and colloquial name- 100 pts each).
Hint: It is almost the anniversary of this date.
What is Black Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929.
In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt declared this in order to calm bank runs and temporarily stabilize the economy.
What is the "bank holiday"?
The name of the treatise Hoover wrote.
What is American Individualism?
The % of NYC construction workers who lost their jobs after the crash.
What is 64%?
This June of 1930 law raised taxes on imports to the highest ever rates (not anymore) with the goal of stabilizing the falling commodity prices.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
One of the few times Hoover used government intervention to fix the economy was with this private banking sector:
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
The annual loss in millions of $ of Ford.
What is $37 million?
What is the Dust Bowl?