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The Great Depression Questions
1. What was Black Tuesday?
2. What other factors led to the depression?
3. What did Hoover and Ford do to worker wages to help fight poverty?
4. Why didn’t Hoover want to interfere more directly with the economy?
5. What was the Dust Bowl?
6. Why did people move west?
7. What were Hoovervilles?
8. What were some of the actions that Roosevelt took to end the Depression?
9. What was the most popular form of entertainment at the time and what was one of the big stories it covered?
10. On the back of this sheet, answer the following reflection question: Do you think such a dramatic economic
recession could happen again? Why or why not?