What is the number of bank failures in the 1930's?
200
over 30% of the labour force was out of work
What was the labour force like by 1933?
200
Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado
What states where part of the "dust bowl"?
300
more than $40,000
What is the ultimate amount the stock market lost ?
300
birth rates dropped massively as well as the number of immigrants. it caused many illnesses and suicides. population rates weren't the same for decades.
What kind of impact did the great depression have on the population?
300
Malnutrition, starvation, illness
What were the human physical effects of the Depression?
400
the American economic policy with Europe , which caused less trade between America and foreign countries, and helped American companies
What is the cause of the smoot-hawley tariff, its affects and the reason it was created?
400
R.B Bennett and because he seen it as a local and provincial responsibility.
Who was the prime minister when the depression first hit and why did he not want welfare for the jobless?
400
Women had to take jobs outside of the home because their husbands weren't making enough money. They were finally able to work in real jobs like clerical work and teaching.
How did the Depression aid women's rights?
500
the drought of the Mississippi valley
What is one indirect cause of the great depression, that caused people to not be able to pay taxes and to lose their farms?
500
people were ill and deadly. Companies were shut down. banks were closed and caused debt for many. many suffer from mental illness. many were homeless
Why would the unemployment rates stay above 12% until the second world war?
500
It affected them worse than white Americans. They were usually the last to be hired and the first to be fired. They earned less. In 1932 about 50% of blacks were not employed