The Great Depression
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- Q1a place where stocks, or shares in businesses are bought and soldstock market30s
- Q2a time when the economy of a nation falls sharplydepression30s
- Q3to fail to pay a loan when it is duedefault30s
- Q4to take the property of someone who has failed to pay back a loanforeclose30s
- Q5money given in addition to what is owedbonus30s
- Q6a period of very dry weatherdrought30s
- Q7a worker who travels from place to place to harvest cropsmigrant worker30s
- Q8A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930sDust Bowl30s
- Q9the farmers, who in the Great Depression, were forced to move, many moved to OklahomaOkies30s
- Q10construction projects paid for by public fundspublic works30s
- Q11help given to poor peoplerelief30s
- Q12A tax on imported goodstariff30s
- Q13veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of a World War I bonusbonus army30s
- Q14Which is not a cause of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?companies reporting false profitsdeportationlack of regulationspeople buying stocks on margin45s
- Q15Which are ways that Herbert Hoover tried to help people during the Great Depression?Paid people's bills and grocery billsshutdown the stock market and stopped foreclosuresIncrease deportation and violencecut taxes and started public works projects45s