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| Name given to the sharpest decline in the stock market history? |
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| Who were the two nominees of the 1928 election? |
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Herbert Hoover
Alfred Smith |
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| Which 1928 candidate was against prohibition? |
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| Who cuse intensified the Depression by raising tax on imports? |
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| Who produced the first feature length animated film? |
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| What was the first feature length animated film? |
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| Snow White and the seven dwarves |
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| Who portrayed a stern farmer and his daughter in front of their farmhouse? |
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| What was the name of the painting in which a stern farmer and his daughter are portrayed in front of a farm house? |
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| What book tells the story of an Oklohoman family fleeing the Dust Bowl to find a new life in California? |
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| Who wrote the Grapes of Wrath? |
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| Who used a stream of consciousness technique to expose attitudes of Southern whites and African Americans in Mississippi? |
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| What was set up by charities to give people a free meal during the depression? |
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| What takes place when many depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time? |
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| Name given to the Great Plains in the 1930s during a severe drought? |
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| Unemployed Americans who wandered around the country, walking, hitchhiking, or "riding the rails"? |
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| Poor section of town consisting of crudely built dwellings? |
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| Buying and selling ownership shares of a company? |
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| Buy now and make payments each month? |
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| Melodramatic serial drama on the radio or television? |
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| Stockbroker's demand for immediate repayment of a loan? |
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| Investing in stock market, hoping to make a quick profit? |
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| When stock prices continue to rise? |
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| When stock markets continue to decline? |
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| Buy a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest? |
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| What was set set up by Hoover to provide loans to banks, railroads, and farming institutions? |
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| Group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington in 1932? |
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| This is created when the government spends more money than it collects in taxes? |
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| Welfare or aid for the needy? |
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| Another name for court officer? |
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| Loss of prosperity due to nonpayment of the mortgage? |
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| Government financed projects? |
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| Explain the three issues that helped Hoover win the election of 1928? |
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Prohibition
Prosperity
Religion |
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| List the causes of the Great Depression? |
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Overproduction
Installment Plan
Uneven Distribution of wealth
Hawley Smoot Tarriff Act
Federal Reserve Board lowered interest rates |
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| List the effects of the Great Depression? |
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Hunger
Homeless
Unemployed
Bank Close |
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| What was Hoover's responses to the Great Depression? |
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NCC
RFC
Public Works
Emergency Relief and Construction Act |
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| What program gave loans to troubled banks? |
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| National Credit Corporation |
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| What act involved federal governement giving money to the state government to provide relief? |
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| Emergency relief and construction Act |
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| Hoover in response to the pledge failure increases what? |
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Public Works Projects which improve the economy
Government Spending
Taxes |
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