Economic Problems
Farmers before and After
The Stock Market
Americans Suffer
The New Deal
100

Periodic growth in the economy

What is a Business Cycle

100

To meet the unprecedented crop demands created by World War I, they had to ___________ harvest yields and bought more land to put under the plow.  

What is Increase

100

The name given of the day, the month and year the Stock Market Crashed 

What is Black Tuesday October 1929

100

What is The unemployment rate

100

President Roosevelt's plans to uplift the economic disparity of the United State.  

What is The New Deal

200

During the 1920's people where purchasing more and more products as time went on

What is Consumption

200

What was the result for the farmers purchasing costly tractors and other mechanized farm equipment to help them meet demand. 

What is debt

200

As investors gambled on the markets, by 1929 stock prices were based on little more than __________. 

What is Confidence

200

Despite this high unemployment rate, millions of workers were able to keep their jobs which included higher wages and longer hours.  

                          True or False

                               

                                  False

200
1. To provide immediate assistance to help with basic necessities

2. A policy or program to promote growth in the American economy

3. A program designed to ensure the Great Depression did not occur again.

What is

           Relief

           Recovery

           Reform

300

A republican president who emphasized his belief that competition was vital to ensure robust economic growth. 

Who was Herbert Hoover

300

Even though production remained high because of increasingly mechanized farm equipment, what part of their crops were they not able to sell? 

What is Surplus

300

Stocks and bonds are bought on credit

What is Buying on a Margin

300

What are Bread Lines and Hooverville

300

Which one of the "R's" does the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) fall under and what does it help restore? 

What is Reform and confidence in the economy

400

More than 60% percent of all american families had yearly incomes of less than $2000 per year.  In contrast, 24,000 of the country's wealthiest families enjoyed annual incomes of more than $100,000

What is Uneven Distribution of Wealth

400

When there is little to no rainfall, grass dies, soil loses its nutrients and strong winds will displace dirt all over crops and homes.    

What is the Dust Bowl 

400

With confidence in the stock market failing, what did nervous investors start to do with their stocks/bonds? 

What is Sell

400

These refugees from Oklahoma and other parts of the country had to leave their homes because of this natural event. 

What are Okies and the Dust Bowl 

400

Why does congress pass the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)? 

To stop overproduction and raise crop prices

500

Americans made purchases buy using these two forms of payments 

What is Credit and Installment Plans

500

Congress passed this bill which raised taxes on foreign imports which in turn also hurt the American farmers financially. 

What is Hawley-Smoot Tariff

500

What did investors begin to do with their money as they watched the stock market go down by the day and what was the result? 

What is take their money out of the banks and bank failures

500

Efforts by local, state, and federal governments to encourage or coerce immigrants and their naturalized children to return to their country of origin. 

What is Repatriation

500

What economic theory did some people believe President Roosevelt was practicing, with programs like Social Security (SSI) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)? 

What is Socialism