Chapter 9: The Great Depression

1. List & explain the causes of the Great Depression that we discussed in class:
2. What year did the Stock Market crash?
3. Who was president at the beginning of the Great Depression?
4. Who was president at the end of the Great Depression?
5. Why did the banks fail during the Great Depression?
6. What was the unemployment rate in the US in 1935?
7. Explain what Hoovervilles were, and why they had that name.
8. Why did Americans turn to arts & entertainment during the Great Depression?
9. The Dust Bowl:
a. What was it?
b. What geographic area did it impact?
c. Why did it cause people to migrate? Most commonly, what state did
people migrate to?