20/21st - Davis - SVHS - The Great Depression
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Paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest. | show 🗑
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Little towns consisting of shacks. | show 🗑
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The results of overexhausting the land through overproduction of crops mixed with a drought in the Great Plains. | show 🗑
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WWI vets and their families arrived in Washington D.C. to support a bill paying them immediately for uncompensated services during wartime. | show 🗑
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show | hoboes
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The industry that suffered the most during the Great Depression. | show 🗑
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show | speculation
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show | Gross National Product
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show | Hoover Blankets
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For what reasons during the late 1920's were American consumers buying less? | show 🗑
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show | 75%
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While the wealthiest 1% of the country saw an increase in their income, the rest of the population saw an increase of only ____% | show 🗑
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The ____________ had become the most visible symbol of a prosperous American economy during the 1920's. | show 🗑
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show | The Dow Jones
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show | 4 million
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show | 16.4 million shares were sold that day causing prices plummet
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show | 11,000
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show | 25%
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show | 40%
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During the early 1930's there wasn't any direct relief provided by the federal government. Instead the most common form of aid provided to those in need by local organizations in urban areas were _________. | show 🗑
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Unemployment was the highest and wages was the lowest among who? | show 🗑
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show | they could grow food for their families
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Many farmers who did lose their land turned to ___________ to scrape by. | show 🗑
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show | Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado
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show | “Any lack of confidence in the economic future . . . Is foolish”
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show | Hoover Flags
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What were two measures Hoover finally enacted to protect people’s homes and businesses? Even though it was a little too late. | show 🗑
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show | the Patman Bill
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show | he called them “Communists and Criminals”
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