1. What campaign issues led to Herbert Hoover's election to the presidency?
A: Prohibition, religious values, and economic prosperity led to Herbert Hoover's election to the presidency.
2. What was the stock market like in the in the 1920s?
A: In the 1920s, the stock market was considered a bull market. Americans heavily invested in it, in hopes they would make a fortune overnight.
3. How did the bank failures contribute to the Great Depression?
A: Bank failures triggered a crisis of confidence in the banking systems, leading Americans to make runs on the nation's banks. This caused the banks to collapse.
4. What chain of events turned the once-fertile Great Plains into the Dust Bowl?
A: Since the beginning of homesteading on the Great Plains, farmers had gambled with nature. Their plows had uprooted the wild grasses that held soil's moisture. The new settlers then blanketed the reigion with wheat fields. When crop prices dropped in the 1920s, however, Midwestern farmers left many of their fields uncultivated. Then, beginning in 1932, a terrible drought struck the Great Plains. With neither grass or wheat to hold the scant rainfall, the soil dried to dust. From the Dakotas to Texas, America's pastures and wheat fields became a vast "Dust Bowl."
5. How did the artists, photographers, and writers, such as John Steinbeck, reflect the characteristics of the 1930s?
A: Artists, photographers, and writers, such as John Steinbeck, reflected the characteristsics of the 1930s by depicting the harsh and emotional times in their works.
6. Why did Hoover oppose deficit spending?
A: Hoover oppposed deficit spending because he feared it would dely an economic recovery.
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