Study Guide Ch 12

Question 1

What class of people benefited from stock market

Answer 1

The rich

Question 2

Welfare capitalism

Answer 2

Employers raised wages and provided benefits such as paid vacations, health , plans that even English class for immigrants without workers having to join a union

Question 3

Consumers desire for excited new products lead to

Answer 3

Buying on credit

Question 4

What attitude prevailed among Americans who invested in the stock market during the 1920s

Answer 4

Get rich quick

Question 5

What two groups of people suffered during the 1920s before the depression hit

Answer 5

Farmers and factory workers

Question 6

Speculation

Answer 6

The practice of making a high-risk investments in hopes of getting a high gain

Question 7

Buying on margin

Answer 7

Allowed investors to purchase stock for a fraction of its value and borrow the rest

Question 8

What event caused agricultural prices and products to plummet

Answer 8

The end of World War One

Question 9

What took place on October 24, 1929

Answer 9

Worried investors begin to still in stock prices fell

Question 10

What was great crash

Answer 10

The collapse of the stock market

Question 11

After the great crash occurred who was affected

Answer 11

Millions of Americans many of whom had never own stocks

Question 12

Business cycle

Answer 12

Periods in which the economy grows then contract

Question 13

The great depression cost millions of Americans to use their

Answer 13

Jobs farms and homes

Question 14

Why did thousands of banks close after the crash

Answer 14

Could not return depositors money

Question 15

The collapse of the American economic system lead to

Answer 15

Worldwide depression

Question 16

What were the three underlying causes of the Great Depression

Answer 16

Over speculation government polices unstable economy

Question 17

During the great depression wage cuts and unemployment affected who

Answer 17

All levels of society

Question 18

What group of people were hardest hit by the depression

Answer 18

Unemployed Labors

Question 19

Extended family

Answer 19

Various family members living under the same roof

Question 20

What forced thousands of farmers to flee west and take on labor jobs in California

Answer 20

Low farm prices and terrible weather

Question 21

Who was an Okie

Answer 21

Poor farmers from Oklahoma going west looking for work

Question 22

What did a poor diet and anxiety do to the people during the depression

Answer 22

Peoples physical and mental health decline

Question 23

What was a common site in large cities during the depression

Answer 23

Soup kitchens and breads lines

Question 24

During the depression working women were accused of what

Answer 24

Taking jobs away from men

Question 25

Durning the depression many members of minority groups lost

Answer 25

Their low-paying jobs to whites

Question 26

African Americans in the south where denied these civil rights during depression

Answer 26

Education voting and healthcare

Question 27

When Hoover took office in 1929 what did he expect

Answer 27

Most Americans expected prosperity to continue

Question 28

With economics ability in the 1920s what did this do to the Stocks

Answer 28

Stocks were rising

Question 29

Why didn't Hoover do anything to discourage the wild buying of stocks with borrowed money

Answer 29

He had high confidence in the business world

Question 30

What two groups of people suffered during the 1920s before the depression hit

Answer 30

Farmers and factory work

Question 31

What is the Dow Jones industrial average

Answer 31

An average of stock prices of major industries

Question 32

What took place on October 24, 1929

Answer 32

Worried investors began to sell and stock prices fell

Question 33

Great depression

Answer 33

A severe economic decline that lasted from 1929 until 1941

Question 34

The collapse of the American economic system lead to

Answer 34

Worldwide depression

Question 35

What were the three underlying causes of the Great Depression

Answer 35

1. Overspeculation 2. Government policies 3. Unstable economy

Question 36

Extended family

Answer 36

Various family members living under the same roof

Question 37

What caused the rise in homelessness during the depression

Answer 37

People losing their jobs

Question 38

Hooverville's

Answer 38

Shanty towns, made up of crates, cardboard, or any scrap material

Question 39

Hoover blankets

Answer 39

Newspapers

Question 40

Hoover flags

Answer 40

Empty pockets

Question 41

Hoover leather

Answer 41

Cardboard liner to put in a shoe to cover a hole

Question 42

How did family suffer during the depression

Answer 42

Food prices dropped and farmers couldn't pay their mortgage

Question 43

What happened to the farmers when they couldn't pay their mortgage

Answer 43

Banks foreclosed and had auctions

Question 44

Dust bowl

Answer 44

Great plains where drought and dust storms took place in 1930

Question 45

What forced thousands of farmers to flee west and take on labor jobs in California

Answer 45

Low farm prices in terrible weather

Question 46

During the depression many members of minority groups lost

Answer 46

Their low-paying jobs to whites

Question 47

African Americans in the south were denied the silver rights during the depression

Answer 47

Education Voting Healthcare

Question 48

What activity did many Americans avoid during the depression

Answer 48

Buying on credit

Question 49

What did farmers agree to do in some farmer communities if a farm was auctioned off

Answer 49

To keep it low

Question 50

Name political group that gain some support during the depression

Answer 50

The Socialist party

Question 51

Why

Answer 51

Called for a gradual social and economic changes rather then revolution

Question 52

What was the common goal for those people involved in radical or reform movement during the depression

Answer 52

To work together for social justice

Question 53

21st amendment

Answer 53

Repealing prohibition

Question 54

Why did most Americans welcome repeal

Answer 54

Curb on gangsters

Question 55

Who took control of alcohol consumption

Answer 55

The states

Question 56

What was one Drammatic symbol of hope during the depression

Answer 56

Empire State building

Question 57

Who became laborers number one enemy during the 1930s

Answer 57

Henry ford

Question 58

Al Capone

Answer 58

Arrested for tax envasion and sent to prison | Died of syphlis

Question 59

Babe Ruth

Answer 59

Retired from baseball in 1935

Question 60

In 1932 what tragedy replied to the nations distressed condition

Answer 60

Someone kidnapped and murdered infant son of Charles Lindbergh

Question 61

How did Hoover feel what is the best way to end the depression

Answer 61

Voluntary controlled by the US businesses

Question 62

What causes international trade slow down during the depression

Answer 62

Passing Hawley Smoot tariff in 1930

Question 63

What was the purpose of the Reconstruction finance Corporation

Answer 63

Gave government credit to bank so they could extend loans

Question 64

Bonus army

Answer 64

World war one veterans wanted immediate payment of pension bonus that had been promised for 1945

Question 65

How did Hoover get the bonus march is out of Washington DC

Answer 65

General Douglas Mac Arthur to use force

Question 66

What did Franklin d Roosevelt promise Americans in his campaign for president

Answer 66

New deal

Question 67

What was the name of his campaign song

Answer 67

Happy days are here again

Question 68

Why did Americans like FDR

Answer 68

Optimism Charm Compassion

Question 69

What were FDR's credentials

Answer 69

Graduated from Harvard university, New York state senator, governor of New York

Question 70

As governor of New York he had experience in starting what programs

Answer 70

Relief programs

Question 71

Why was 1932 election a turning point in the role of government in American society

Answer 71

Government played more important roles with people in society