Great Depression
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Period prior to the Great Depression characterized by prosperity, growth and change in the United States.
What is the roaring 20s?
The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
Factories and farmers producing to more goods than they could sell.
What is overproduction?
Name of the boxer James Braddock beat at the end of movie.
Who is Max Baer?
Okies and Arkies left their home states to head to this state.
What is California?
October 29th 1929
What is the date of the stock market crash? OR What is Black Tuesday?
A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
What are Hoovervilles?
Taking out loans to purchase stocks assuming that the stock prices would continue to increase.
What is buying on margin?
Held office during the stock market collapse and the height of the Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Treaty that ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Year the Great Depression Began.
What is 1929?
A region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Bank deposits were uninsured and thus as banks failed people simply lost their savings which led to this.
What are bank failures?
He wrote the Grapes of Wrath, a novel about the Dust Bowl migrations.
Who is John Steinbeck?
When people were cold, they sometimes had to use newspapers to try and stay warm which earned this nickname that paid a less than flattering tribute to the current president.
What are Hoover Blankets?
Year that the Dust Bowl began.
What is 1930?
Group of WWI vets. that marched to D.C. in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of their government war bonuses in cash.
What is the Bonus Army?
Price of an asset increases but the value of the asset stays the same.
What is an asset bubble?
President that beat Hoover by a landslide in the election.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
In the political cartoon, "The Wise Economist asks a Question," what kind of animal is the wise economist?
Election year that put FDR in office.
What is 1932?
High-tariff law that contributed to a global economic downturn in the 1930s.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
The government raised these from 5 to 6% weeks before the stock market crash.
What are interest rates?
Group that lost jobs due to discrimination during the Great Depression.
Who are African Americans?
Hoover said every American would have one in their pot.
What is a chicken?