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1
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Who is now a well-known photographer, author, and filmmaker? He was a 16-year-old high school student in the fall of 1929.

A

Gordon Parks

2
Q

What is the number of new dwellings being built?

A

Housing starts

3
Q

What industry suffered the most during the Great Depression?

A

Agriculture

4
Q

What bill did congress try to pass to help out farmers that called for federal price supports?

A

McNary-Haugen bill

5
Q

What is it called when the government buys surplus crops at guaranteed prices and sells them on the world’s market?

A

Price-supports

6
Q

What is an arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for purchases?

A

Credit

7
Q

Credit would sometimes be in the form of this, usually in monthly payments. It included interest charges.

A

Installment plan

8
Q

What to candidates ran in the election of 1928?

Who won?

A

Republican - Herbert Hoover - president

Democrat - Alford E. Smith

9
Q

Who is the current president in 1928?

A

Coolidge

10
Q

What is a period of rising stock prices?

A

Bull market

11
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What is buying stocks and bonds on the chance of a quick profit, while ignoring the risks?

A

Speculation

12
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What is paying a small percent of the stocks price as a down payment and borrowing the rest?

A

Buying on margin

13
Q

When did stock prices peak and then fall?

A

September 1929

14
Q

What was it called when the bottom fell out of the market and the nation’s confidence?
On what day did this happen?

A

Black Tuesday

October 29

15
Q

What was the period from 1929 to 1940 in which the economy plummeted in unemployment skyrocketed called?

A

The Great Depression

16
Q

By 1933 how many of the nations 25,000 banks have failed?

A

11,000

17
Q

Between 1929 and 1932 what was the gross national product reduced to and by how much?

A

It was nearly cut in half to 59 billion

18
Q

What percent of people were unemployed in 1933?

A

25% (13 million workers)

19
Q

In 1930 Congress passed what act which established the highest protective tariff in United States history?

A

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act