AP U.S. History / Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945
7.9 The Great Depression
Notes
Causes: stock speculation and the 1929 crash, bank failures, overproduction, unequal wealth, high tariffs (Smoot-Hawley). Unemployment reached about 25%. Hoover relied on voluntarism; the Dust Bowl devastated the Plains.
Practice
The stock market crashed in:
Black Tuesday.
The Dust Bowl was caused partly by:
Great Plains.
At its worst, unemployment during the Depression was about:
1933.
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