When
Vocabulary
Causes/Effects
Great Depression
Timeline
100
What year did the stock market crash?
Late 1929
100

Shares that people buy in return for a small ownership of that company

Stocks

100

What went out of business in the stock market crash?

Everything (especially banks)

100

What was the main cause of the Great Depression?

The Stock Market crash. 

100

Who was the president when the stock market crashed?

Herbert Hoover

200

What is Black Tuesday? 

The day the stock market crashed and billions of dollars were lost. 

200

Public trading-places that exist for issuing, buying and selling stocks

The Stock Market

200

True/False: If you hadn't invested any money in stocks, you didn't lose any money in the stock market crash.

False

200

True/False. The Great Depression only effected happened in the United States.

False

200

*Surprise!* What state is Isabel from?

Extra 100 points if you can name her city as well!

Ann Arbor, Michigan. 

300

What was the exact date of Black Tuesday?

October 29th, 1929

300

The biggest place where stocks are bought, sold, and traded

New York Stock Exchange / Wall Street

300

What did the banks do to peoples money without asking them?

Put their money into stocks

300

Name three effects of the Great Depression on someone's life

- Lose job

- Lose house / become homeless

- Lose life savings

- Panic/Anxiety/Fear

300

Put these events in order: The Great Depression, WWII, WWI, Black Tuesday, The Roaring Twenties (1920s)

WWI, The Roaring Twenties, Black Tuesday, The Great Depression, WWII

400

What is the name of the day when thousands of investors decided to sell their stocks?


Extra 100 points if you give the exact date.

Black Thursday. October 24th, 1929

400

an economic term that refers to a significant decline in general economic activity in a designated region.

A recession / A Depression 

400

What is the name of the economic phenomenon that happens when there are more sellers than buyers? 

Supply & Demand

400

When was the start and end of the great depression?

it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s / middle 1940s.

400

What year was the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) established? 

1933

500

When were stocks at their peak?

August 1929

500

A fixed amount of money or compensation paid to an employee by an employer in return for work performed.

Salary

500

Many people took these types of money given out from banks which they were expected to pay back but never did. This resulted in many banks failing following the stock market crash.

Loans

500

Unemployment reached this number in the 1930's as a result of the Great depression.

What is 25%? (I'll accept 24-26%)

500

Who was the president that led the US out of The Great Depression? 

Franklin D. Roosevelt