TEST 21 The Great Depression 1928-1932
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- Q1Connect the descriptions to Cause or Effect of the Great DepressionUsers sort answers between categoriesSorting30s
- Q2During the 1920s, most Americans considered the nation's economy to begrowingdecliningsteadyunstable30s
- Q3Average Americans were able to buy more consumer goods during the 1920s because ofrising wages and easy credita concentration of wealthdeclining productionlower agricultural prices30s
- Q4Which of these factors contributed to wealth disparity in the 1920shuge corporate profitsdeclining industrial wagesrising value of agricultural productslower consumer debt30s
- Q5What precipitated the stock market crash?declining farm productionloss of investor confidencehigh industrial unemploymentruns on the nation's banks30s
- Q6which circumstance contributed to the collapse of the banking system?Consumers refused to buy on creditFarm production dropped suddenlyNot enough money was in circulationStock prices skyrocketed30s
- Q7Congress passed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff toattract more European importsprotect prices on American goodsfix wages at American factoriesencourage American exports30s
- Q8Europe responded to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff byselling more European goods in the United Statesopening European marketsbuying more American goodsraising prices on American imports30s
- Q9Workers who kept their jobs during the Great Depression oftenfaced wage and hour cutshad moved westworked on farmsworked with an employment office30s
- Q10Which group of people built Hoovervilles?tenant farmershomeless peopleOkiesimmigrants30s
- Q11Most farmers who left the Dust Bowl set out for which state?New YorkNebraskaTexasCalifornia30s
- Q12which human and geographic factors combined to cause the Dust Bowl?massive unemployment and natural disastersintensive farming practices and droughtwestward migration and a desert climateoverproduction and damming of rivers30s
- Q13Approximately how many people fled the Great Plains because of the Dust Bowl?hundredstens of thousandsthousandshundreds of thousands30s
- Q14What effect did the Great Depression have on minority groups such as mexican and African Americans?Discriminatory practices endorsed during the Great DepressionMinority groups had more job opportunities during the Great DepressionIncreases in immigration during the Great Depression gave minority groups more influence.The Great Depression did not really change conditions for minority groups30s
- Q15President hoover was very committed to a policy based on which of the following?regulationspeculationvolunteerismrepatriation30s