U.S. Stock Market
What was the New York Stock Exchange
What is a market in which companies could raise money byselling “shares” of their companies to investors
What is Black Thursday
What is the U.S. Stock Market lost 11%of its value
What is Great Depression
What is a global economic slowdown that devastated the U.S. economy
What was President Hoover’s campaign slogan?
What is Speedy Recover
What were Roosevelt's initials he was known for?
What is F.D.R
What is a stock?
What is a unit of ownership in a business– the investor pays the business toown one (or more) units of ownership in the company, giving businesses a way toraise money
What happened on Black Monday
What is lost another 12.82%
What was the place called when most Americans lost their homes
What is Hoovervilles
What did Hoover fail to do?
What is failure to provide economic relief to Americans and to improve the faltering American economy
What law limits the number ofterms someone can serve as president to two?
What is the 22nd Amendment
During what years did the stock prices of many companies soared
What is Between 1920-1929
What happened on Black Tuesday
What is more than 16 millionstocks would be sold– wiping outthousands of investors & billions ofdollars, almost overnight
Why were the towns called Hoovervilles
What is President Herbert Hoover refused to provide government aid to Americans when the Great Depression began
Who defeated Hoover in the Election of 1932?
What is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What was Roosevelt's goal for the economy?
What is help the economy recover?
This practice (of using loans to buy stocks in order to make a profit) is known as
What is Speculation
What was the total losses in the stock market during the Fall of 1929
What is $26 billiondollars– more than 40% of the wealth the market created had disappeared
Who was affected the most by the Great Depression
What is African-Americans and Mexican-Americans
How many terms as President did Roosevelt do?
What is 4
What did Roosevelt do so that The Great Depression did not repeat?
What is creating regulations & reforming conditions
What U.S. Economist said “Stock prices have reachedwhat looks like apermanently high plateau.”
Irving Fisher
What happened to banks during 1929
What is lost all of their money
Where did the most affected Americans move to?
What is California
What did Roosevelt pledge to the people?
What is “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal forthe American people.”
What was F.D.R'S slogan for election
What is New Deal