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| What was the American belief about the economy throughout most of the 1920's? |
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| Businesses would continue to prosper |
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| One sign of a weakening economy in the 1920s? |
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| National wealth was not evenly distributed |
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| What did people do when the Dow Jones Average dropped in 1929 |
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| People raced to get their money out of the stock market |
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| How were European companies hurt during the depression? |
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| US companies stopped investing in Germany |
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| A major environmental crisis of the 1930s |
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| Who were the people most likely to loose their job during the depression |
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| African Americans; Hispanics; Asian Americans |
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| What was stopped by the 21st amendment? |
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| How did the 1932 election change the views of Americans? |
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| It changed how Americans viewed the responsibilities of the government |
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| What was the economy like in the 1920s? |
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| Stock prices rose and the economy was healthy |
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| Which group of Americans faced the most problems during the 1920? |
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| Name a sign that the 1920s economy was really unsound |
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| More goods were being produced then the consumers could buy |
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| Name one effect of the of the wage cuts and unemployment of the 1930s |
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| Hoovervilles sprang up in the nations cities |
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| The strategy that President Hoover thought would end the depression. |
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| He encouraged voluntary controls in the business sector |
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| Biggest disagreement of the presidential election of the 1932 election |
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| Should the federal government try to fix people’s problems |
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| After Black Tuesday, who was affected by the stock market crash beside the investors? |
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| Millions of Americans who had never owned stock |
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| What did the stock market crash lead to? |
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| Unemployment for millions of Americans |
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| Why did many banks close after the crash? |
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| The banks were unable to return the depositors’ money |
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| What was the cause of world wide depression |
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| The crash of the American economic system |
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| Name an underlying cause of the Great Depression? |
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| Who was eventually affected by the wage cuts and unemployment of the Great Depression? |
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| All levels of society/ everyone |
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| People hit hardest by the depression were the… |
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| What was the main cause of homelessness during the depression? |
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| Jobless workers lost their homes |
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| What caused many farms to be auctioned off during the depression? |
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| Farmers could not pay their mortgages |
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| Her photos of migrant workers helped win aid for the workers |
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| What caused the decline of people’s physical and mental health? |
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| Why were some men upset with women during the depression? |
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| Because they though that the women were tailing jobs away from the men |
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| Who replaced many minority workers during the depression? |
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| The “Depression Generation” did not do the following… |
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| Buy expensive items on credit |
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| What did some people agree to do when farms were auctioned (in order to help the farmers?) |
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| They agreed to keep the bids low |
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| What political party gained supporters due to the poor conditions of the depression? |
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| Why did radical and reform movements work together? |
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| They tried to seek social justice |
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| How was humor helpful during the depression? |
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| It helped people fight off feelings of despair |
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| What was one major goal of repealing prohibition? |
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| The Empire State Building |
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| A dramatic symbol of hope |
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| This business became labor’s prime enemy in the 1930’s |
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| The 1930’s import tax which was the highest in history. It slowed international trade. |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
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| Aimed to provide government credit to banks |
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| How did General MacArthur get the “Bonus Army” marchers to leave the capital? |
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| What did people like about Franklin Roosevelt? |
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| What made Roosevelt easily win the 1932 presidential election? |
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| The role of government in American society changed as a result of… |
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| Periods where the economy grows and then contracts |
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| Dow Jones industrial Average |
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| information about the stock prices |
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| Wife of the President and experienced social reformer |
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| Why did the Great Depression in the US affect the economies worldwide? |
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| End of WW1; War reparations; Economic crisis in Europe already underway; high war tariffs; |
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