Great Depression, Dust Bowl and The Federal Reserve
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11th Grade
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Brian White
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The Great Depression, Dust Bowl, and The Federal Reserve
by Brian White
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Learning Objectives
Describe the 1920's economy
Explain the Downward Business Spiral and the Downward Farm Spiral
How does the Government respond to the economic crisis?
Explain the Stock and Banking Crisis
Describe and explain the Great Depression
Why did many people blame Herbert Hoover for the start of the depression ?
Which area of the US was impacted by the Dust Bowl and why does it occur?
Who were the Okies?
What were the societal effects of the Great Depression?
Explain what Germany was doing that created high inflation
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Multiple Choice
Most people in America in the 1920's lived below the poverty line
True
False
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Open Ended
How was the American economy perceived in the 1920's
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Open Ended
What does the Downward Business Cycle Lead to?
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Multiple Choice
What happens to farmers after WW I ?
Farmers make tons of money
Farmers overproduce and cause crop prices to drop and they can't pay back loans
Farmers keep producing food for the soldiers in case of another war
Farms grow in size
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Open Ended
What was the underlying problem of the 1920's?
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Multiple Choice
Republican Government did not favor Big Business in the 1920's
True
False
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Multiple Choice
What is the concept of trickle down economics?
Helps out the poor and the money will flow
Helps out the rich and the money will go to everyone else
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Multiple Choice
Which was not a way the government helped businesses in the 1920's?
Raised tariffs
slashed income taxes
overturned child labor laws and minimum wage for women
Gave out stimulus checks
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Multiple Choice
Explain what buying stocks on margin is
Buying stock with a down payment not the full price
Buyin the minimum amount of stock
Investing in a lot of random stocks
Cashing in on all stocks
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Multiple Choice
Because of speculation on stocks this would create what ?
a bubble that would be based on speculation that the stocks would go up
an increase in profits
banks not loaning money
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Multiple Choice
What be the result when people realized the bubble was about burst?
Banks ran out of money
People made huge profits off of selling stocks
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Multiple Choice
What was Black Tuesday ?
The Stock Exchange would catch fire in New York
The Stock market would crash which would start the Great Depression
The Stock Market got out of the red and into the black with profits
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Open Ended
Describe the conditions during the Great Depression
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Multiple Choice
Who was mainly blamed for the Great Depression?
Roosevelt
Wilson
Hoover
Taft
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Multiple Choice
This picture is a representative of what during the depression?
Ethnic Neighborhoods
Hoovervilles
Mill Villages
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Multiple Choice
Which part of the US was affected by the Dust Bowl?
The Northeast
The Great Plains States
California
The North
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Open Ended
Describe the Dust Bowl in your own words
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Multiple Choice
Who were the Okies?
People that were okay with the Government
Poor migrants from Oklahoma who fled to California due to drought
People from Oklahoma who stayed in there even though land was bad
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Open Ended
What were some of the societal effects of the Great Depression?
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Multiple Choice
What did the German government do that led to inflation ?
Cut the supply of oil
Produced less food
Printed more money
Gave loans to the US
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Key Vocab
Write down and define
Okies
Dust Bowl
Trickle Down Economics
Margin
Bonus Army
Poverty
Drought
Hooverville
Great Depression
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Write the Learning Objectives and answer
Describe the 1920's economy
Explain the Downward Business Spiral and the Downward Farm Spiral
How does the Government respond to the economic crisis?
Explain the Stock and Banking Crisis
Describe and explain the Great Depression
Why did many people blame Herbert Hoover for the start of the depression ?
Which area of the US was impacted by the Dust Bowl and why does it occur?
Who were the Okies?
What were the societal effects of the Great Depression?
Explain what Germany was doing that created high inflation
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