Causes of the Great Depression | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Practice learning about the Great Depression. Click a cause and see if you can answer true or false if it was a cause for the Great Depression.

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Over supply and less demand

True

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Restrained government response under Hoover

True

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Stock Market Crash signaled the start of the Great Depression

True

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Dust Bowl in the Midwest

True

15

Hawley-Smoot Tariff increased tax on import

True

15

New Deal Programs implemented by Hoover

False

15

Banking Crisis, thousands of banks failed.

True

15

Consumer Credit Purchasing

True

15

Bonus Army was given the money early

False

15

Federal government provided stimulus checks

False

15

Rugged Individualism used by Hoover

True

15

Buying on Margin stopped the Stock Market Crash

False

15

Unemployment reach 25% in 1933

True

15

Some became migrant workers

True

15

Hoovervilles were created to promote Hoover

False

15

People trusted the banks

False

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