Great Depression
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- Q 1/11Score 0Who was President when the Stock Market crashed in 1929?29Herbert Hoover
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- Q1Who was President when the Stock Market crashed in 1929?Herbert Hoover30s
- Q2What happened on October 29, 1929?Stock Market Crash30s
- Q3What plan of FDR's provided retirement for seniors, help for the disabled and children; this still exists today.Social Security30s
- Q4True or False; The Stock Market crashed in 1929 because few people purchased stocks.False30s
- Q5True or False: One cause of the Great Depression was high tariffs that strangled international trade.True30s
- Q6Who was elected President in a 1932 landslide victory?Franklin D. Roosevelt30s
- Q7What was the name for the package of laws and programs Roosevelt proposed to ease the effects of the Depression on the people?New Deal30s
- Q8What event in 1931 added to the misery of farmers on the Great Plains?Dust Bowl; drought30s
- Q9Riding freight trains without paying is called:Riding the rails30s
- Q10Investors paid only a fraction of a stock's price and borrowed the rest. This is called:buying on margin30s
- Q11What finally brought an end to the Great Depression?World War II30s
