1930’s The Century Questions-Stormy Weather 1929-1936
(Answer on a separate sheet of paper)
1. What was President Hoover forced to do during the Bonus Army March?
2. What year did the Stock Market crash?
3. When the woman’s father came home after their store closed, how much did their family have left?
4. What former Carnegie industry was forced to close during the Depression?
5. How many banks failed within just one year of the depression?
6. How many years did it take George Gellys to save 1000 dollars?
7. Who did the Depression Generation people blame for their predicament during the Great Depression?
8. Where you go to escape the hard times of the Depression?
9. What was the new generation of Jazz music called?
10. Who was hit first by the drought?
11. How did a lot of single men travel from town to town during the Great Depression?
12. What were the backgrounds of some of the hoboes?
13. What was spreading across America in response to the hard times?
14. How many Americans moved to the Soviet Union?
15. Who did the World Depression allow to rise to power?
16. Who ran in 1932 for both parties?
17. What were the nicknames of Shantytowns?
18. What is FDR’s slogan during his election?
19. By 1933 what percentage of America was unemployed?
20. According to FDR, the only thing we had to fear was?
21. What did FDR close with his first days of office so they could stabilize?
22. What did FDR say labor had the legal right to do?
23. What did the people of San Francisco do to show their support for the strikers?
24. What was Huey Long’s nickname?
25. What was FDR’s program called starting in 1935?
26. Who won the election of 1936?