How many banks went out of business during the last 60 days of 1930?
600
By 1933, how many states lacked even a single bank open for business?
28
How many Americans had no source of income during the Great Depression?
34 million
In today's money how much would it cost to build the Hoover Dam?
$1 billion
How thick is the Hoover Dam?
200 yards
What did the Hoover Dam create?
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S
What disease did the Dust Bowl give to many people?
Brown Plague
During the Dust bowl years, what percentage of Americans still lived in isolated, rural communities?
40%
Which American President did not appear on Mount Rushmore?
Hoover
What does Mount Rushmore symbolize?
America's faith in the future as well as the past
What is American unemployment like by 1936?
1 in 6 workers can't find a job.
What was so important about the Louis and Schmeling fights?
They represented a battle of ideologies, a black man representing America, a chance to disprove Hitler's master race theories.