The Great Depression

A severe economic downturn

• recession
• decline
• depression
• retraction

Beginning of the panic selling; 13 million shares sold

• Black Tuesday
• Black Thursday
• Black Friday
• Black Sunday

Depositors desperately trying to get their money from their savings accounts

• Bank Dash
• Bank Holiday
• Bank Push
• Bank Run

Why did banks not have their depositors' money?

• They stole the money
• They lost it in the stock market 
• They sent it overseas to help Europe rebuild
• There was a recession in the banking industry

An organized system of buying and selling shares in a corporation 

• Stock Exhange
• Stock Market
• Stock Option
• Stock Trading

The official stock market crash

• Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929
• Black Thursday, October 24, 1929
• Black Tuesday, September 21, 1929
• Black Thursday, September 16, 1929

The Wealth Gap is an example of

• Credit Crisis
• Debit Crisis
• Unbalanced Economy
• Balanced Economy

The unemployed were sometimes known as

• Potato Peddlers
• Berry Pushers
• Cherry Pickers
• Apple Sellers

What was not a cause of the Great Depression?

• government relief programs
• credit crisis
• stock market crash
• unbalanced economy

What action did farmers take when they bought equipment on credit and were unable to pay their loans?

• did public works
• sold equipment
• defaulted
• paid extra interest