The Great Depression

Economy

100

This event helped end the Great Depression.

What is World War II?

200

This caused Herbert Hoover to raise taxes during the G.D. a. He thought that collecting taxes would make stocks rise immediately. b. He wanted to balance the federal government’s budget. c. He wanted to redistribute money from the rich to the poor.

What is he wanted to balance the federal government’s budget?

300

The Federal Reserve and the gov't respond to economic slowdowns today by doing this. a. They raise interest rates to encourage savings. b. They keep a tight rein on the money supply. c. They make money available to individuals and business.

What is they make money available to individuals and business?

400

The following best describes a recession. a. Supply is greater than demand. b. Demand is greater than supply. c. Demand increases very quickly. d. Supply decreases very quickly.

What is supply is greater than demand?

500

The following is an opinion about credit. a. During the 1920s, people could buy stocks on credit. b. Credit makes it easier for people to buy what they can’t afford. c. We would be better off if credit cards were never invented.

What is we would be better off if credit cards were never invented?

Causes

100

This is the effect the stock market crash of 1929 had on the Great Depression. a. It marked the start of the Depression. b. It marked the end of the Depression. c. It marked the point at which the Depression was at its worst.

What is it marked the start of the Depression?

200

The following is true about Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929). a. It was the direct cause of the Great Depression. b. It was the result of a steady decline in demand for stocks in the previous twelve months. c. It was the cause of the underlying problems that led to the Great Depression.

What is it was the result of a steady decline in demand for stocks in the previous twelve months?

300

The following trends during the 1920s set the stage for the Great Depression. a. Americans building up personal debt b. banks making lots of safe loans c. Americans refusing to play the stock market

What is Americans building up personal debt?

400

The federal government’s economic policies during the Roaring Twenties were most likely... a. It regulated the stock market tightly. b. It encouraged saving. c. It encouraged the fair distribution of wealth. d. It encouraged spending.

What is it encouraged spending?

500

This was the key factor that helped lead to both the G.D. of the 1930s and the economic recession that began in 2008. a. Business was booming, and profits were distributed equally among workers and managers. b. The U. S. was stuck in a costly war at both times. c. Americans were spending too much money that they didn’t have.

What is Americans were spending too much money that they didn’t have?

Dust Bowl & Banks

100

Breadlines were often very long during the Great Depression for this reason.

What is many people did not enough to eat during the Depression?

200

This is where you lived if you were a hobo.

What is you would be homeless (also spent time on trains)?

300

The definition of the Dust Bowl in the 20s & 30s.

What is a huge area of ruined farmland in the Great Plains of America?

400

This caused people to seek refuge in California in the 1930s. a. a large flood b. a severe drought c. arrival of migrant workers d. the varied geography

What is a severe drought?

500

This is why so many banks failed during the G.D. a. Banks had no deposits. They only made loans. b. The banks had invested all their depositors’ money in the stock market. c. The banks had used their depositors’ money to buy cars, radios, and other popular inventions. d. The banks had made risky loans that weren’t paid back.

What is the banks had made risky loans that weren’t paid back?

Media

100

This is the significance of the novel, "The Grapes of Wrath". a. It examined the difficulties faced by poor farmers. b. It examined the difficulties faced by the urban poor. c. It examined the unfair conditions faced by factory workers. d. It examined the difficulties faced by hobos.

What is it examined the difficulties faced by poor farmers?

200

Comedies and musicals were popular during the Great Depression for this reason.

What is people wanted to escape from their troubles?

300

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington had this in common.

What is they were popular musicians?

400

Dorothea Lange’s photography helped migrant workers in the 1930s in this way.

What is after Lange put the photo in San Francisco newspaper, the government stepped in to make sure the workers were fed?

500

Based on Dorothea Lange’s photography, this is what one might conclude about her. a. She did not care about the problems of the poor. b. She was not able to help the poor with their problems. c. She cared about the problems of the poor.

What is she cared about the problems of the poor?

Jobs

100

This why a union would call for a sit-down strike.

What is to protest unfair working conditions?

200

This is the amount (or percentage) of workers who were unemployed in 1932.

What is one in four (or 25%)?

300

Most historians credit this with ending the Great Depression.

What is massive government spending in preparation for World War II?

400

An organization of workers for aid and protection for dealing with employers is...

What is a union?

500

To engage in a suspension of work until an employer grants certain demands is...

What is a strike?