The Great Depression

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• What are the similarities and differences between President Hoover’s response to the stock market crash of 1929 and his response to the Great Depression in the early 1930s?
• What was the main factor that led to rising unemployment and rising inflation in the years immediately after World War I ended in the U.S.?
• How did the Great Depression affect the lives of American citizens?
• What was the effect of the stock market crash on businesses, workers, and consumers during the Great Depression?
• What were the main sources of direct relief during the Great Depression?
• Did crime rates during the Great Depression go up?
• What impact did the Great Depression have on shaping the twentieth century?
• How did the Great Depression affect the nation, economically and psychologically?
• How did WW1 cause the great depression?
• How did the Great Depression affect the world economy?
• How did the construction of the Hoover Dam affect the Great Depression?
• What fundamental gain did labor make in the 1930s?
• What factors added to the hardships of midwestern farmers during the Great Depression?
• What were steps taken by President Herbert Hoover to deal with the country's economic problems during the Depression? How did his actions reflect his political beliefs?
• What was the role of the US government in the banking industry at beginning of the Depression?
• During the Depression foreclosure rates skyrocketed. What was the main cause?
• Who was president during the early years of the Great Depression?
• What did Herbert Hoover initially believe about the federal government's role in the Great Depression?
• What were two things that caused Americans to be fearful after World War ended?
• What was mostly true of women's circumstances during the Great Depression?
• Why did President Hoover's response to the Great Depression fail?
• Why did President Hoover responded cautiously to the Great Depression ?
• What did farmers and homeowners have in common during the Great Depression?
• How did the U.S. government change its response to the Great Depression after the election of Franklin Roosevelt?
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• How did Herbert Hoover shift the direction of U.S. social policies?
• How did the Hawley-Smoot tariff damage/hurt America's economy?
• In what ways has the government grown since the Great Depression?
• How did the economic trends of the 1920s help cause the Great Depression?
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• Why were farmers the first to suffer economic hard times?
• What did president rossevelt do to try to counter the effects of the great depression?
• In the early 1930s, why did so many farmers lose their land?
• How did military preparations in 1940 and 1941 end the Depression?
• What was isolationism?
• What motivated the Bonus Army to march on Washington, D.C. in 1932?
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• Why did the Great Depression make some people want a change in government?
• How did Americans feel about world involvement during the 1930s?
• Where did many Dust Bowl migrants flee to?
• How did President Hoover and President Roosevelt differ in their approach towards dealing with the Great Depression?
• During the Dust Bowl, farmers were forced to leave their homes. Where did they move to?
• To what extent did the Great Depression impact the United States?
• What was the Dust Bowl and how did it affect Americans in that area?
• How did the Hawley Smoot Tariff damage the U.S. economy?
• During what years was the Great Depression?
• The Great Depression began in what year?
• What effect did the use of credit have on economy in the 1920s?
• What events led to the Great Depression?
• What was the destination of most Dust Bowl migrants?