In order to protect loans made by stockbrokers to investors who bought stocks on margin, brokers could issue a

What severely dampened commerce on both sides of the Atlantic and intensified the Depression in the United States?

October 29, 1929, the day when stock prices took the steepest dive of that time, is known as

For some banks, the losses they suffered in the crash were more than they could absorb and they were forced to

Beginning in 1932, America's pastures and wheat fields from the Dakotas to Texas became a vast

Many families on the Great Plains packed their belongings into old cars or trucks and headed west, hoping for a better life in

Most people during the Depression were able to enjoy two popular forms of entertainment: the movies and

Daytime radio dramas were sponsored by makers of laundry soap and nicknamed

The Dust Bowl occurred because plowed land was left uncultivated and there was a terrible

By 1932 Hoover concluded that the only way to provide funding for borrowers was for the government to do the lending, so he requested that Congress set up the

Hoover did not want the government to create many new jobs because that would mean increased government

Between 1930 and 1934, creditors foreclosed on nearly one million farms, and farmers retaliated in all of the following ways EXCEPT by

Hoover believed that only state and city governments should dole out

buying and selling ownership shares of companies

a key cause of the Depression

takes place when many depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time

making a down payment and paying the rest of the price in monthly installments

when stock prices continue to rise

places where homeless people put up shacks on unused or public lands

unemployed Americans who wandered around the country, walking, hitchhiking, or "riding the rails

a famous film of the Depression era

court officers who helped with evictions

private charities set up to give poor people a meal

held rallies and "hunger marches" during the Depression

WWI veterans who marched to Washington, D.C.

created when the government spends more money than it collects in taxes

created a pool of money to rescue troubled banks

government-financed building projects