The Great Depression - My World SS

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A long and severe decline in the economy that started in 1929.

• Great Depression

• unemployment

• stock market

• credit

• tariff

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The condition of being out of work

• Great Depression

• unemployment

• stock market

• credit

• tariff

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Where people buy and sell stocks

• Great Depression

• unemployment

• stock market

• credit

• tariff

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borrowed money

• Great Depression

• unemployment

• stock market

• credit

• tariff

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A tax on imports

• Great Depression

• unemployment

• stock market

• credit

• tariff

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goods from other countries

• imports

• unemployment

• stock market

• credit

• Dust Bowl

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After the topsoil blew away, nothing would grow in much of the plains.

• imports

• unemployment

• stock market

• credit

• Dust Bowl

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True or False:

The Great Depression was the longest and most severe economic decline in United States history.

• True

• False

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Who was the President of the United States during the Great Depression?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Thomas Edison

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People blamed President Hoover for their troubles and called their shack towns ___________.

• Shanty Towns

• Hoovervilles

• Ghettos

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