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Causes
Effects
Culture
Farmers
Policies
100
Although this was not one of the major causes of the great depression, this event sent panic through the country and has come to be seen as a signal for the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is The Crash of the Stock Market.
100
When over 30,000 businesses collapsed, 12 million workers (1/4th of the American workforce), became ______.
What is Unemployed.
100
What were the first Soap Operas, and how did they get their name?
Daytime radio dramas, got their names from the soap companies that sponsored the programs
100
terrible storms from the Dakotas and Texas drove farmers and others from their homes, the event came to be known as the ______ ______
What is the Dust Bowl
100
Despite being blamed for reacting too late, this president did more than any other to provide aid and relief to citizens.
Who is Herbert Hoover
200
An example of buying on ________ is when investors buy $10,000 worth of stock for only $1,000, and take the remaining $9,000 as a loan from stockbrokers.
What is Margin
200
These wanderers, mostly young men and boys, roamed the country looking for work, and became known especially for sneaking onto boxcar trains to "ride the rails,"
What are Hobos
200
Name three films produced during the 1930's which featured new techniques and technology such as color film, animation, and special effects.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, King Kong, the Wizard of Oz (also accepted: Animal Crackers and Gone with the Wind).
200
People who left their homes due to dust storms and headed to California in search of a better life came to be known as _______
What are Oakies
200
these government-financed building projects were intended to replace the jobs lost from the private sector.
What are Public Works
300
A ___ ____ is when lots of people all withdraw their money from the bank at the same time, because they fear it will collapse. Ironically, doing this will cause the bank to fail.
What is Bank Run
300
These shantytowns where homeless people gathered were called _______, because of who they blamed for their misfortune.
What are Hoovervilles
300
Author of the Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
300
Why did farmers destroy their crops and spill milk?
To increase demand for their products, thus raising prices
300
The ________ party lost much of its power in Congress, while the _____ party became more powerful.
Republicans/Democrats
400
Name three causes of the Great Depression
uneven distribution of wealth, overproduction of goods, banks make risky loans at low interest rates, collapse of banks, people stop spending money, high tariffs threaten overseas trade, etc.
400
Name one (of the three we studied) form of protest that occurred during the depression.
Hunger Marches, Farmers destroy crops/spill milk, Bonus Army (veterans trying to get their bonus)
400
In "The Sound and the Fury," this author used new writing techniques which told the reader what characters were thinking, and exposed the attitudes of southern Whites and African Americans in a fictional Mississippi county
Who is William Faulkner
400
Name one of the two photojournalists who documented the hard lives of farmers and others during the depression.
Dorothea Lange and Margaret Bourke-White
400
The Emergency Relief and Construction Act provided $300 million in federal funds to states to provide _____ _____ to its citizens.
Direct Relief (accepted answers- relief, direct help, etc).
500
Define Speculation
When investors bet the prices of stock will continue to climb, rather than base stock value on their actual worth.
500
Name at least four effects of the great depression
Unemployment rises, people lose homes, farms, and wander the country, people protest, Republican Party loses control of Congress to the Democrats, government begins providing aid to citizens for the first time, new forms of entertainment seek to distract people from their daily worries
500
These two characters were the first of their genre to appear in comic books in 1938 and 1939 (and are two of Mr. Nielsen's favorites)
Who are Superman and Batman
500
Name three things that caused the dust storms of the Dust Bowl.
drought, high winds, farmers stopped cultivating fields (no plant roots to hold moisture in the soil), and years of farmers wearing away the topsoil from the surface of the Great Plains.
500
Hoover felt that he needed to rescue _____ so they could start loaning money and ______ to start hiring people.
Banks/Businesses