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What were the causes of the Great
Depression?
Tariffs & War debt, a crisis in the farming sector, the availibility of eas credit unequal distribution of income TERM 2
What is the Dust Bowl?
DEFINITION 2 a windstorm in 1934 that picked up tons of dust and covered Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, & Colorado TERM 3
What was President Hoover's reaction to the
Stock Market Crash?
DEFINITION 3 He was optimistic. He tried to reassure Americans that the economy was on sound footing. TERM 4
What did people call the Shantytowns they
often lived in after they lost everything in the
Depression?
DEFINITION 4 little towns consisted of shacks- Skidrow TERM 5
What does buying stock on a margin
mean?
DEFINITION 5 paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest. (
What is rugged
individualism?
Hoover believed that human's could be independent and self- reliant.He did not believe in government interfering in people's private affairs TERM 7
What programs did Hoover introduce and try
to help the people but was too late?
DEFINITION 7 Federal Home Loan bank Act- offered homes at low ratesReconstruction Finance Corporation- $2 million in emergency financing for banks, life insurance, railroads. TERM 8
What was the bonus army? How were they
treated?
DEFINITION 8 A group of WWI veterans and their families who Marched on Washington DC to demand immediate payment of bonus they had been promised for military service.Soliders under the command of General Macarthur used force and tear gas to disband them TERM 9
What was the Patman Bill?
DEFINITION 9 A bill to authorize the government to pay bonus to WW I veterans who had not been compensated for their wartime service TERM 10
Who ran for Presidency in the 1928 & 1932
elections?
DEFINITION 10 Roosevelt
What were the advantages living in rural
America during the Great Depression?
people on farms could grow their own food TERM 17
What habits changed after living through the
Great Depression?
DEFINITION 17 People were frugal. They did not waste anything. But people were also very generous and showed kindness by sharing clothes, food.
