great depression - 1930s

Question 1

working class Americans: positives - what provided temporary josb

Answer 1

hoover dam

Question 2

working class Americans: positives - fact to show some governmenet intervaention prodivded relief

Answer 2

• emergency relief act gave $300 million for unemplyement

Question 3

working class Americans: negatives - what did wages and industrial production fall by

Answer 3

• wages = 60%
• industrial production = 40 %

Question 4

working class Americans: negatives - hwo many people lost their jobs daily

Answer 4

12 000

Question 5

working class Americans: negatives - what did unemployement in toledo reach

Answer 5

80 %

Question 6

working class Americans: negatives - how many suicided in one year

Answer 6

23 000

Question 7

businesess: positives - what provided loans to bansk

Answer 7

national credit corporation

Question 8

businesess: positives - why did hoover cut taxes

Answer 8

to stimulate consumer spendign

Question 9

businesess: negatives - how many companies went bankrutp

Answer 9

100 000

Question 10

businesess: negatives - how many banks closed

Answer 10

10 000

Question 11

businesess: negatives - how many investors were affected when bank of USA closed in decemeber 1930

Answer 11

400 000

Question 12

businesess: negatives - US international trade fell what

Answer 12

from $10 billion to $ 3 billion

Question 13

businesess: negatives - what worsened the glabal economic cirisis by reducing trade

Answer 13

smoot hawley tarriff 1930

Question 14

US economy: positive

Answer 14

• some gov. efforts like rconstruction finance corporation and national credit corporation tried to stbalised banks and busineses

Question 15

US economy: negatives - what decreased 40 %

Answer 15

industrial and farm production

Question 16

US economy: negatives smoot hawley tariff imapct

Answer 16

worsened glabal economy causing trade to plummet

Question 17

US economy: negatives - impact of rugged individulaism

Answer 17

prevented large scale gov. relief efforts

Question 18

farmers: positives - what provided some loans to farmers

Answer 18

hoover’s agricultural marketing act 1929

Question 19

farmers: positives - what did farmer’s say

Answer 19

“in hoover we trusted, now we are busted”
-> collective resitance

Question 20

farmers: negatives - farm income decreased what during depression

Answer 20

$13 billion to $5 billion

Question 21

farmers: negatives - how many farmer’s evicted

Answer 21

1 in 20 as they couldnt pay mrotgages

Question 22

farmers: negatives - hwat happened to overfarmed land

Answer 22

turned into dutbowls making farmin gimpossible

Question 23

farmers: negatives - where did farmers go

Answer 23

• california via route 66
• those from oklahoma were labelled as okies

Question 24

women: positives

Answer 24

• some found work in chrity kitchens and as domestic helpers
• those with jobs became the primary earners as male unemployement soared

Question 25

women: negatives

Answer 25

- women in hoovervilles faced harsh living conditions - lost jobs as businesses failed

Question 26

women: negatives - fact to prove families struggled to afford food and malnuttirion/starvation cases rose

Answer 26

238 hospital admission in 1931 and 45 deaths

Question 27

black americans and immigrants: positive

Answer 27

- some immigrant communitites supported each other through mutual aid socieites

Question 28

black americans and immigranst: negatives - fact about mexicans

Answer 28

- 500 000 mexicans and mexican americnas where forced out of US because of the mexican preratriation program - with 60% of those deported were actuall US citizens

Question 29

black americans and immigranst: negatives - what did immigrants face

Answer 29

- discrimintation - first to lose jobs