The Great Depression A-Z - Statistics

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#	Hint	Answer	% Correct
R	4-term president who helped mitigate the effects of the depression	Franklin D. Roosevelt	92%
H	President during the 1929 Great Crash	Herbert Hoover	92%
A	Pacific country in which 29% of people were without jobs	Australia	82%
Q	A depression can be defined as a decline in GDP for 12 consecutive ______	Quarters	78%
W	Street home to the NYSE that "crashed" on Black Tuesday & Black Thursday	Wall Street	78%
D	Period of dust storms and drought that intensified the depression	Dust Bowl	71%
J	Due to racist systems, like these laws, half of African-Americans lost their jobs	Jim Crow Laws	71%
P	60% of people were below this line at times due to economic issues	Poverty line	69%
Z	Animal-related businesses that were created during and thrived during the depression	Zoos	67%
U	Rate that skyrocketed to 25% by 1933 due to job loss	Unemployment	65%
I	This economic measure reached -10.3% in 1932 due to contraction	Inflation	61%
E	Events that became very common, leading to mass homelessness	Evictions	55%
N	Series of reforms in the mid-late 1930s to combat the depression	New Deal	53%
Y	Organization for young people that provided care to many poor young men	YMCA	51%
O	Derogatory term for white migrants from Oklahoma moving westward for work	Okies	47%
G	Adherence to this monetary system was a major intensifier	Gold standard	41%
K	English economist who became very influential during the depression	John Maynard Keynes	41%
F	Seizing and selling of property that intensified the housing crisis	Foreclosures	37%
T	Corporation created under the 32nd president to mitigate environmental issues and provide energy in Tennessee and other southern states	TVA	35%
X	Technology created by Chester Carlson as a result of him landing a law job, a last resort career due to lack of available jobs	Xerography	35%
B	When lots of people simultaneously try to withdraw from a bank	Bank run	31%
C	1930s work relief program for young men, often in parks or historical locations	CCC	29%
V	The 31st president relied on this type of free labor to mitigate effects of the depression	Voluntarism	29%
M	Cheap labor force that was a lifeline for many industries- most often Mexicans	Migrant workers	18%
S	1930 import tax act meant to protect domestic industry that hurt the economy	Smoot-Hawley Tariff	14%
L	Derisively nicknamed cardboard used to line shoes with holes in the sole	Hoover {Leather}	12%

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