Questions: Stormy Weather: 1929-1935
Directions: Answer the questions in the space provided as you watch the video from Peter Jennings' The
Century: America's Time.
1. Why did the "Bonus Army" march to Washington, D.C?
2. What did President Hoover order the U.S. Army to do to the Bonus Army's camp?
3. How did the Great Depression affect the powerful U.S. Steel Corporation?
4. Within one year of the stock market crash, (number) banks failed and (number) savings accounts were
lost forever.
5. True or False: In 1930, the government had little effect on people's daily lives.
6. Where did many Americans 90 to escape their problems in the 1930S?
7. What new type of jazz music developed in the 1930S amidst the Depression?
8. The
1930s.
was the most important appliance in the American home in the
9. What natural disaster hit America's farmlands during the 1930s?
10. Many farm families fled to
look for jobs.
11. True or False: During the Depression more people left America than came it.
12.
Versailles, was hit especially hard by the Depression.
still suffering from the harsh conditions of the Treaty of