THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
inside out pockets to show you have no money
|
|
|
newspaper the homeless used to cover up with
|
|
|
shantytowns where the homeless lived
|
|
|
None of the above
|
Detailed explanation-1: -A “Hoover flag” was a pants pocket-empty of all money-turned inside out. By the 1932 election, hitchhikers held up signs reading: “If you don’t give me a ride, I’ll vote for Hoover.” Americans did not necessarily believe that Hoover caused the Great Depression.
Detailed explanation-2: -A “Hoover flag” was an empty pocket turned inside out and “Hoover leather” was cardboard used to line a shoe when the sole wore through. A “Hoover wagon” was an automobile with horses hitched to it, often with the engine removed.
Detailed explanation-3: -(US, dated, especially during the Depression) An empty (penniless) pocket, turned inside out, showing that someone has no money.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Great Depression, many items were named after President Hoover including the Hoover blanket (a newspaper used for a blanket) and Hoover flags (when a person turned their empty pockets inside out). When people used cardboard to fix their shoes they called it Hoover leather.
Detailed explanation-5: -: a shantytown of temporary dwellings during the depression years in the U.S. broadly : any similar area of temporary dwellings.