Show:
People
Places
Events
Ideas/ Terms
Random
100
President when the Stock Market crashed
Who is Herbert Hoover
100
Location of the Stock Market
What is Wall Street (New York City)
100
October 24, 1929
What is Black Thursday
100
Buying stocks on credit is also known as this
What is margin (buying)
100
Term for a market that is going up
What is Bull Market
200
He won the election in 1932 who offered the American people a "New Deal"
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
200
Place where food was given to the needy
What is a breadline
200
October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday
200
Group of World War I veterens who went to Washington D.C. looking for early government payment
What is the Bonus Army
200
Term for a market that is going down
What is Bear Market
300
Secretary of the Treasury under Hoover
Who is Andrew Mellon
300
Location where Communist Party members defended Afircan American youth
What is Scottsboro
300
Hoover and Congress established this to lend taxpayer money to troubled banks
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
300
The idea that success comes from individual effort
What is rugged individualism
300
Life was worse in what kind of geographical setting
What is urban (cities)
400
Author whose works included "The Sound and the Fury"
Who is William Faulkner
400
Location the Bonus Army made camp
What is Washington D.C.
400
The regular ups and downs of business in a free-enterprise economy
What is the business cycle
400
The highest tariff in U.S. history
What is Smoot-Hawley
400
American ownership of these rose from about 12 million to 28 million during the Depression
What is the radio
500
Mexican American who fought discrimination against her people
Who is Josefina Fierro de Bright
500
Makeshift shelters
What is a shantytown
500
The number of these fell during the depression, leading to lower birth-rates
What are marriages
500
During the farming crisis, Congress passed this act which established the Federal Farm Board
What is the Agricultural Marketing Act
500
Book by James Hilton about a weary traveler who finds utopia in Tibet
What is Lost Horizon