1. Chapter 8 Review Sheet
1. Great Depression
2. Localism
3. Tenantfarmers
4. Breadline
5. HerbertHoover
6. Trickle-downeconomics
7. BonusArmy
8. Black Tuesday
9. RFC
10. Businesscycle
11. Repatriation
12. DouglasMacArthur
13. Okies
14. speculation
15. What group of people had a poor economicsituationalreadyinthe 1920s?
16. Explainthe businesscycles. Whatpart of the businesscycle wasthe US inin the 1920s?
17. Why didthe stock marketcrash?
18. Why didthe Great Depressionspreadoverseas?
19. Describe the DustBowl
20. Why didpeople leavetheirhomesduringthe DustBowl?
21. What were some of the signsinthe 1920s that the economycouldnot be sustainedatits
currentpace?
22. What happenedonBlackTuesday?
23. Why didbankscollapse atthe beginningof the GreatDepression?
24. What didEurope do whenthe US passedthe Hawley-SmootTariff?
25. What reasondidJohnMaynard Keynesgive forthe GreatDepression?
26. At the beginningof the GreatDepressionwhathappenedtourbanunemployment?
27. How didthe price of commoditiesimpact the rural farmer?
2. Chapter 8 Review Sheet
28. How didfarmerscreate issuesthatcomplicatedthe DustBowl?
29. What was the unemploymentrate forAfricanAmericanscomparedtothe national rate?
30. Why didn’tHooverrespondtothe Great Depression?
31. What didvolunteerismcall for?
32. Hooverwantedthe RFC because?
33. What type of governmentdidAmericansblame the GreatDepressionon?
34. What happenedtomake AmericansthinkHooverneededtogoin1932?
35. Where didpeople fromthe DustBowl go?
36. Why isunevendistributionof wealthabadthingfor the nation?
37. Why were bankshurtright afterthe stock marketcrash?
38. What didHooverdo to irritate the BonusArmy?
39. What was the resultof the veterangroupmarches?
40. Why wasthe Depressionespeciallydifficultforminorities?
41. Why didvolunteerismfail?
42. Who didthe RFC loanmoneyto?
43. Why didthe BonusArmy march?
44. Where didDust Bowlersgo?
45. Why didn’tanyone payattentiontothe farmersduringthe 1920s?
46. What were economicfactors/conditions toputthe US intothe Great Depression?
47. Why didHooverfail in hisresponse tothe Great Depression?