What was the main cause of the unprecedented levels of poverty during the depression?
100
1929-1939
The Great depression occurred from____ until____ ?
100
Bennett Buggy
What was the term used for a car that had its engine and windows taken out and was pulled by a horse?
100
The Dust Bowl conditions
Why was there such a mass migration pattern during the depression?
100
William Aberhart
Who was the founder and first leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party?
200
The Stock Market Crash
What was the result of various economic imbalances and structural failings that occurred in 1929?
200
Sep 8, 1935
What was the day that marked the assassination of Huey Long?
200
The Dust Bowl
Also known as the Dirty Thirties, a term used to describe the period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies.
200
Frugality, wariness of banks, inclination to hoard food, and suspicion of the stock market.
What did the societal change look like for the survivals of the depression?
200
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is the name of the man who guided America through the depression and occupied the oval office for the duration of it?
500
Production versus Consumption
An effect that contributed greatly to the depression, when there was too much investment in industry capacity and not enough investment in wages and earnings.
500
September of 1933
What was the date of Townsend's Proposal of the Pension Plan?
500
The act of hopping on freight trains, illegally and using them for transportation, typically by jobless men that were looking for work.
What was the meaning and purpose of the term "Riding the Rods"
500
Franklin D.Roosevelt's New Deal
What was the main cause of the increased role of government in people’s lives, of groundbreaking levels, levels that continued long after America had recovered from the Great Depression.
500
She served as president of the National Association of Colored Women and in 1935, was a founder of the National Council of Negro Women.
What were civil rights activist and educator Mary McLeod Bethune's greatest accomplishments during the time of the depression?