Great Depression Test
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| A. This was the term given to the area of the Great Plains that was most greatly affected during the Great Drought of the 1930's.B. This is a general decrease in the level of prices.C. Panicked customers withdrew their deposits in fear that the banks were going to close and their investments would be lost.D. This is the central bank of the United States.E. During the Great Depression (specifically 1932), this group of veterans protested in Washington, D.C., to receive their "bonus" for fighting in World War I, though payment was not required until the next decade.F. This is the lack of jobs for willing workers.G. This 1930 tax on imported goods was passed with the goal of protecting the American economy, but in reality it reduced U.S. imports and exports by as much as 50%.H. Name given to the Depression-era villages, comprised of shacks built with leftover wood, crates, and sheet metal. They were usually havens for disease and represented the desperation of the masses after the collapse of the stock market.I. This was a famous dramatic loss of value in the shares of stock in corporations that hit the U.S. in 1929.J. Popular name for old newspapers that were used by the homeless as bedding during the Great Depression, so named because president Herbert Hoover was blamed for the economic crisis. |
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