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What is 30%
95% of the people recieved what percent of the pay?
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What is 2.5 million
By the end of the 1930's, how many people had left the Great Plains?
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What is buying on margin
What is buying stocks with loans from stockbrokers known as?
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What is gross national product
What does GNP stand for?
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Who is Herbert Hoover
Who was blamed for the shanty towns that sprung up around major cities?
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What is The Great Depression.
What was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downfall in the United States?
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What are Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas
What were the four states most affected by the drought of the Dust Bowl?
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What is October 29, 1929
On what date did Black Tuesday occur?
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What are hobos
What are jobless, homeless, wanders?
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Who is Herbert Hoover
Who established the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief to stimulate and coordinate employment and relief activities?
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What is the year 1933
In what year did the unemployment rate reach its peak at 24.5%?
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What is grasshoppers and jackrabbbits
The Dust Bowl unleashed plagues of what two creatures?
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What is $16 billion
During October the stock market drop by about how many billion dollars?
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What is a run
Because banks gave out too many loans, they didn't have enough cash on hand. They were vulnerable to what?
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Who is Herbert Hoover
Who was elected chairman of Boys' Club of America and held that position until his death?
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What is 18.1%
What was the average suicide rate in the year 1929?
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What are Okies
What were people farm families that migrated to California called?
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What is 1.1 billion stocks
How many billions of stocks were sold in the year 1929?
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What is foreclosure
What occurs when a bank or lender takes over ownership of a property of an owner who failed to make payments?
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Who is Herbert Hoover
Who would not win the election on November 8, 1932?
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What is 300 million tons
How many tons of soil was moved during the Dust Bowl?
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What is 6,500 people
During the Dust Bowl, approximately how many people died trying to jump onto moving freight trains?
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What is 5,000 banks
By 1933 how many banks have closed because of the crash?
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What are Oakies
Migrants from the states of Oklahoma and other Great Plains were known as what?
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Who is FDR
Who is the 32nd president of the United States?
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