Show:
The Great Crash
Americans Face Hard Times
Hoover As President
vocabulary
Potpourri
100
The day the stock market crashed is known as __________.
What is Black Tuesday.
100
Drought turned the Great Plains into a _________.
What is dust bowl.
100
rustic shacks that people lived in during the Great Depression were referred to as ___________.
What are Hoovervilles.
100
People who hopped on trains to look for work.
What are hoboes
100
Government and businesses worked together to build this project.
What is Hoover Dam.
200
Between 1923 and 1929, how did many Americans feel about trade unions?
What is they didn't join them. Because of welfare capitalism, most workers were satisfied with their jobs and did not join organized labor.
200
As American investors became concerned about the economy, what did many of them resort to doing on Thursday, October 24, 1929?
What is they sold their stocks.
200
How did most Americans feel about Hoover's handling of the Great Depression.
What is many felt he did very little to help Americans and many felt he didn't care about how desperate they were.
200
Total value of all goods and services produced by a nation.
What is GNP or gross national product.
200
This was a group of veterans who marched on Washington D.C. to get pay that was promised to them early.
What is Bonus Army.
300
Buying stocks with borrowed money is called _______.
What is buying on margin.
300
Term for when a lender takes over ownership of a property from an owner who has failed to make payments.
What is foreclosure.
300

Why did Hoover not respond to the Great Depression? 

He thought the economy would recover soon or He thought government intervention would ruin rugged individualism and Americans spirit to help themselves. 

300
Hoover believed in _______________ economics, believing it was not the proper role of government to interfere in business.
What is laissez-faire
300
If you bought a stock on margin (with borrowed money) and the stock fell, what could the broker do?
What is force the investor to repay their loans (called a margin call) right away.
400
Name two of the economic danger signs of the 1920's.
What is buying on credit, buying on margin, uneven distribution of wealth, too many goods with too little demand, economic troubles for farmers.
400
Who wrote the article, "Everyone Ought To Be Rich."
Who is Jacob Raskob.
400
During the Great Depression, United States companies stopped investing the the ________ economy, which greatly affected the world economy.
What is Germany. U.S. providing low-interest loans to Germany and many American businesses were investing there. When this stopped, Germany couldn't pay their reparations to Britain and France, Britain and France therefore could not repay their loans to the United States.
400
One of Hoover's few actions during the Great Depression which made it more likely that Americans would buy American goods.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
400
This novel was written by John Steinbeck.
What is the Grapes of Wrath.
500

What was the unemployment rate during the Great Depression? 

25% or 1 in 4 were out of work. 

500
This case dealt with nine black youths who were riding the rails, arrested, and accused of raping two white women.
What is the Scottsboro case.
500
This provided aid to struggling banks.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
500
Hoover's idea that businesses and government could form voluntary groups to make the economy successful and efficient were called _________.
What is the associative state.
500
She took the photograph called Migrant Mother?
Who is Dorthea Lange.