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History Test 1930s
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What day did the stock market crash | Oct. 29th |
| What was the day of the stock market crash known as | black tuesday |
| what were the causes of the great depprssion | stock martket crash, industrail problems, and stock market abuses, european demands for good declined |
| What was credit spending | spending more money then you have |
| what is income disparit | wealth isnt distripputed equally |
| What were the industrial problems? | railroads lost money competing with cars, post war industrial ended, agriclulture boom ended, international competion in trade |
| What are margines | buying stock with some crash and some credit |
| What is speculation | buying stocks with insider information |
| What were the abuses of stock market | magine and spectulation |
| Where and what was the dustbowl | from texas to dakotas, decline in rainfall and increase of heat |
| What was the Scottsboro case | 9 black boyes were accused of rape by 3 women after be taken off a freight train and arrested for vacancy. All evidence proved the women false but a jury sentenced 8 to death but supreme court overturned convictions |
| What did Will hayes and the studio system do | ensured there ws no controversial messages in Hollywood's products |
| Who was Margaret Mitchell | author of gone with the wind |
| What was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who created it | foaught against fascists created by American Communist Party |
| What ws the Socialist Party of America | supported by rural poor and blamed failure of capitalism for economic crises |
| Who was Norman Thomas | Leader of Socialist Party of America |
| What did the SOuthern Tenant Farmers Union try to do | create sharecroppers and tenant farmers for economic reform |
| Wahat was the Agriculture Marketing Act | 1st program to maintain prices for farmers |
| what was hawley smoot tariff | increased production on 75% of harm products |
| what were hoovervilles | shantytowns where unemployed live |
| what was the reconstrucion finance corporation | government agency that provided fed laons to troubled bussinesses |
| Why was hoover critized | cause his Agri marketing act, hawley-smoot tarriff, reconstru finance corp did not work and he failed to increase money for fed work programs |
| what was the bonus expeditionary force | veterans that held strike to get their bnus for serving in war immediatlly |
| What was the Farmers' Holiday Assocation | strike where farmers with held farm products from market |
| who won election of 1932 | Franklin Roosevelt |
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