The Great Depression
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- Stockmarket Crash
- What began The Great Depression?
- The making, giving out and using goods and services
- What is the definition of economy?
- shack
- What is a Hooverville?
- The New Deal
- The program of President Rooseelt was called?
- 1932
- What was the worst year of the depression?
- Polio
- President Roosevelt had a disease called?
- We had a crash in our classroom
- What happeneed on Tuesday after Christmas break?
- World War II
- The Depression ended because of?
- "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs" "Gone with the Wind" "Wizard of Oz" "King Kong" "Dracula"
- Name at least 2 movies that premiered in the 1930's.
- bankrupt
- When companies or people cannot pay their debts they sometimes go
- newspaper used as a blanket by the poor
- What was a Hooverblanket?
- Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie
- What cartoons were popular in the 1930's?
- Democrat
- What political party was President Roosevelt?
- One that settles on land without right or title or payment of rent
- Explain what a squatter is?
- having too much of something
- Surplus means?
- Monopoly
- What well known game was invented in the 1930's?
- Hoover
- Who was president when the depression began?
- It's a Wonderful Life
- What movie depicts the depression and a bank run?
- lack of rain and soil used up by farmers
- What caused the drought in the midwest?
- Yo,yo, bicycle, dolls,
- Name 1 popular toy of the period.
- do nothing
- President Hoover believed government should?
- Pluto
- What at one time was a planet that was discovered in 1930?
- John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath was written by?
- New York
- Franklin Roosevelt was governor of what state?
- Route 66, the Mother road
- What road did the Okies take when they traveled from Oklahoma to California?
- Fireside Chats,
- Pres. F. D. Roosevelt was the first to do radio to talk to the people of the U.S. What were his radio talks called?
- 25% 1 out of every 4
- What percentage of Americans were out of work in 1932?
- Hooverhogs, Hooverblankets, Hooverville
- Name 2 things named after President Hoover
- to trade a good for a service, a service for a good, a service for a service, a good for a good
- What is bartering?
- Baseball
- What was the favorite American sport of the depression?
- Toll House chocolate chip
- What famous cookie was invented in the 1930's by accident?
- Republican
- What political party was President Hoover?
- "It's a Wonderful Life" "Grapes of Wrath" Split Infinity"
- Name 1 movie that was made about the period.