Causes and Economic Factors
This is the event generally considered to be the start of The Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash?
This was the unemployment rate in 1933, the highest in US history at the time.
What is 25%
These were the two presidents during the Great Depression.
Who were Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This was the real name of the man known as Cinderella Man.
Who was James Braddock?
This is the decade that the majority of The Great Depression Occured.
What was the 1930s
This was considered the number-one cause of The Great Depression.
What was Overproduction?
These two years are considered the heights of The Great Depression.
What are 1932 and 1933
This is the government agency that insures deposits in banks.
What is the FDIC?
This was the name of the group of WW1 veterans that went to Washington D.C. to get their bonus early.
What was the Bonus Army?
This is the term for making a down payment and paying the rest in monthly installments.
What is an Installment Plan?
This is the term when the stock market continues to rise.
What is a Bull Market?
These unemployed Americans wandered around the country or rode the rails looking for work.
What are Hobos?
This was the name of the radio broadcasts conducted by FDR.
What were Fireside Chats?
This is the government office Cinderella man went to, to get financial help.
What is the Relief Office?
This was the region of the continental United States where The Dust Bowl occurred.
Where is the Great Plains?
This tariff was signed into law by President Hoover on June 17th, 1930.
What was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
These makeshift communities of homeless people sprang up on public or unused land during The Great Depression.
What are Shantytowns or Hoovervilles?
This takes place when many depositors decide to withdraw their money from the bank at once.
What is a Bank Run?
This is the approximate number of banks that failed during The Great Depression.
What is 9,000?
This is where many of the workers effected by The Dust Bowl
Where is California and/or The West
This was the practice buyers engaged in; seeking to make fast money.
What was Speculation?
This occurs when the government spends more money than it collects in taxes.
What is a Budget Deficit?
This was FDR's number one goal when entering office.
What were Bank Holidays?
This is the name of the picture taken by Dorothea Lang of Florence Thompson on a California farm.
What is Migrant Mother?
This was the name of the financial collapse that began The Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash?