AMERICAN HISTORY
Unit II – A Modern Nation
CHAPTER 11 Test ReviewPut a + if you know it, ? if you might and Circle the item if you do not know it at all.
Vocabulary
Names
Dates and Events
Section 1- The
Great Crash
Stocks
Shares
Gross National
Product
Invest
Specific
Buying on Margin
Section 1- The Great
Crash
Federal Reserve
System
Herbert Hoover
Al Smith
Section 1- The Great Crash
Prosperity of the 1920’s
What was the false sense of security (page 321)
Election of 1928
Economic Weaknesses of the 1920’s
Wealth Distribution
Credit and the stock market- buying on margin
Federal Reserve
Crash of the Stock Market
Black Thursday- Oct. 24, 1929
Black Monday- Oct. 28, 1929
Black Tuesday- Oct. 29, 1929
Effects of the Crash
Impact on Individuals
Banking Crisis
GNP
World Economy and high tariffs
Business, Consumer spending and Layoffs
Section 2
Americans Face
Hard Times
Hoboes
Great Depression
Asset
Plight
Foreclosure
Hoovervilles
Drought
Dust Bowl
Okies
Section 3- Hoover
as President
Clause
Associative state
Cooperative
Section 2 Americans
Face Hard Times
Woody Guthrie
Section 3- Hoover as
President
Hoover Dam
Hoover and rugged
individualism
Section 2 Americans Face Hard Times
Bank Failures and runs on the bank
Farm Failures
Unemployment
Hoovervilles and Hoboes and emotional toll
Dust Bowl
Where, when, why, and what did they do?
Section 3- Hoover as President
What did Hoover do to help?- rugged
individualism
What was the associative state?
Voluntary Cooperation
Direct Action of Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Bonus March
Voters react to Hoover