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US History
Crash Course US History #33
1. What is the relationship between the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
2. Why does John Green say that it is tempting for us to say that the Stock Market crash started the
Great Depression?
3. What were people buying with the money that commercial banks were lending?
4. When does credit become a problem?
5. Why did agricultural prices drop during the 1920s?
6. Why did farmers go into debt?
7. Why do economists want to know what caused the Great Depression?
8. If John Green was going to name a single cause of the Great Depression what would it be?
9. What was wrong with banks at this point?
10. What does John Green think that the Federal Reserve should have done?
11. What did Hoover blame the depression on?
12. Why did economic problems in other nations affect America?
13. Why was the Smoot-Hawley tariff so bad?
14. What did Hoover do?
15. What did Hoover not do?
16. What percentage of the economy was the Federal Government responsible for in 1920? Today?
17. What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
18. What was the problem with the RFC?
19. What was the unemployment rate in 1930? What is it today? (look it up)
20. What was POUR?
21. What is the Mystery Document? What does it demonstrate about this time period?
22. What is the Bonus March?
