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history test000
history test friday
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| veterans who marched to demand payment of money promised by congress | Bonus Army |
| Dust Bowl refugees who moved westward to find work | Okies |
| speculation | risky stock purchases made by investors with hope of high return |
| President when the stock market crashed | herbert hoover |
| Government efforts to pressure Mexican immigrants to return to mexico | repatriation |
| General who dispersed protestors by ordering federal troops to fire on them with tear gas | Douglas MacArthur |
| the periodic expansion and contraction of the economy | business cycle |
| agricultural worker who work on land owned by someone else | tenant farmers |
| the theory that money invested in banks and businesses will work its way through the system to laborers | tricle-down eco |
| the occasion of the stock market crash | Black tuesday |
| which group faced the greater financial difficult during the 1920 | farmers |
| During the 1920s, the United States economy was in which phase of the business cycle | expansion |
| why did the stock market crash | Investors lost confidence in the market and started to sell their shares |
| which factor contributed to the spread of the great depression overseas | a decline in investment from the united states |
| people likely abandoned this places because | the land could not be farmed |
| both african americans and mexican americans had an especially difficult time during the great depression beacuse they | faced discrimination when competing for a limted number jobs |
| why did volunteerism fail | business and citizens acted in their individual best interest |
| congress instated the RFC to loan money to | banks so that they could lend money to businesses to stimulate economic activity |
| why did the bonus army march on washington D.C. | president hoover vetoed a bill promising to pay veterans their bonuses in 1945 |