The Great Depression

Question 1

What tariff raised rates on over 20,000 goods to record levels

Answer 1

Hawley Smoot-Tariff Act

Question 2

Nickname for October 29, 1929

Answer 2

Black Tuesday

Question 3

Hoovers unpopularity lead to this mans victory in 1932

Answer 3

Roosevelt

Question 4

Democratic candidate for president in 1929

Answer 4

Alfred E. Smith

Question 5

Someone who wonders without a permanent home or job

Answer 5

Hobo

Question 6

This industry was hit hard because of new forms of energy

Answer 6

Mining

Question 7

Nickname for newspapers people to keep warm; named after the president because people blamed him for the Great Depression

Answer 7

Hoover blankets

Question 8

1928 president presidential candidate who once headed the Food Administration; he was unwilling to finance employment through government intervention

Answer 8

Hoover

Question 9

He commanded the troops that drove the vets from DC

Answer 9

MacArthur

Question 10

This rate rose almost 30% during the Depression

Answer 10

Suicide

Question 11

Term for migrants during the Great Depression

Answer 11

Okies

Question 12

Another name for a “Hooverville”

Answer 12

Shantytowns

Question 13

Buying stocks with the hope of selling them at a high price

Answer 13

Speculation

Question 14

The Great Plains loss of deep-rooted prairie grass, high winds, and what led to the Dust Bowl

Answer 14

Plowing

Question 15

This failed bill called for federal price support for farmers

Answer 15

McNary Haugen

Question 16

This authorized $2 billion for emergency financing for banks

Answer 16

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Question 17

Month the stock market crashed in 1929

Answer 17

October

Question 18

Region destroyed by drought and dust storms

Answer 18

Dust Bowl

Question 19

Term for the period of time from 1929-1940

Answer 19

Great Depression

Question 20

Widely used barometer of the stock markets health: _____ Industrial Average

Answer 20

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Question 21

They found themselves with products that they couldn’t sell

Answer 21

Farmers

Question 22

Veterans of WWI that descended on Washington

Answer 22

Bonus Army

Question 23

Buying stocks by only putting some of the money down: buying on the_____

Answer 23

Margin

Question 24

People waited here to receive food from charitable organizations

Answer 24

Bread Line

Question 25

Nickname for armed freight yard patrolmen

Answer 25

Bulls

Question 26

This president vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, twice

Answer 26

Coolidge

Question 27

Term for a cash payment given to a poor person

Answer 27

Direct relief

Question 28

Large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River

Answer 28

Boulder Dam

Question 29

When they closed, many people lost their life savings

Answer 29

Banks

Question 30

Agreement to buy now and pay later

Answer 30

Credit