82. What is one basic explanation for the Great Depression?One basic explanation was overproduction by the farm and the factory. At this time, the supply was high while the demand wasn't as high.
83. Too much money was going into what? Instead of what?
Too much money was going into the hands of a few wealthy people who invested it in factories and other agents of production. Not enough was going into the salaries and wages of normal workers.
84. Another cause was the overexpansion of what? Which stimulated what?
Overexpansion of credit through installment plan buying over-stimulated production. This caused many consumers to dive in beyond their depth and stimulated in unemployment from the rise of new technologies.
85. What added to this burden of tough economic times?
The normal technological unemployment added to the burden of new labor saving machines.
86. What helped push America's economy further downward?
Economic anemia darkened an already "bleak" picture as Europe hadn't fully recovered from the Great War. America was actually pushed down by this due to a drying up of international trade.
87. What natural disaster made things worse in 1930?
A drought scorched the Mississippi Valley in 1930 as thousands of farms were sold at auction for taxes. Farm rental was spreading at an alarming rate.
88. What made the Depression a baffling wraith for Americans? In what ways did it challenge their most cherished assumptions and sense of identity?
The depression was a baffling wraith that they couldn't grasp in the sense that ragged individuals slept under old newspapers and 'Hoovervilles' were paper shantytowns. People fought over garbage cans and cooked whatever they could find in oil drums. 
Next is Maria Jenkins
The industry that became the most popular was the automobile industry because not only was it not taking the energy on an animal but it was cheaply made so it was more accessible to the people and not considered a rich man's car. Now, American manufacturers turned their focus away from production and turned it to consumtion.
Advertising became the focal pojnt of buying these industrial products with persuasion, ploy, and seduction. People became discontented with their original possessions and always clamored for more. In 1925, Bruce Barton published a best seller called The Man Nobody Knows which set forth a provocative thesis that Jesus was the greatest advertiser of all time and said that advertisers must study Jesus's parables and that he had twelve assistance that he picked up from the bottom of business and forged them to head a conquering organization, Christianity. Personally, I think this was teetering on the line of BLASPHEMY!!!
Sports began to become a large part of the consumer economy as two famous new sports emerged: baseball and boxing. In baseball, one man arguably brought baseball to where it is today and his name is Babe Ruth who is known for building the New York Yankees into a baseball powerhouse (unfortunately) and was famous for all the home runs he hit. He is still know for hitting home runs as he currently is second on the all time list of home run hitters behind Hank Aaron (this list excludes cheaters). In boxing, Jack Dempsey is known for bringing that sport to the states when he took the heavyweight title from Georges Carpentier of France. Events started to amass up to over $1 million.
Buying on credit was considered smart during the roaring twenties because they believed that they should possess now and pay tomorrow. The frugality of Puritan descendants went away as new appliances came out such as refrigerators (below), vacuum cleaners, cars, and radios. However, the economy was put at risk to a stock market crash. 
60. The three principles of Wilsonianism are the era of American isolation from world affairs has irretrievably ended, the US must infuse its own founding political and economic ideas (democracy, rule of law, trade, and self determination) into the international order, and American influence can eventually steer the world away from rivalry and warfare toward a cooperative and peaceful international system (UN). 
Forest Reserve Act (1891): The president was authorized to set aside public forests as national parks and other reserves. The effect was 46 million trees being saved.
Carey Act (1894): This distributed federal land to the states on the condition that it be irrigated and settled. 
Newlands Act (1902): Washington was authorized to collect money from the sale of public lands in the western states and use the funds for the development of irrigation projects.
Federal Trade Commission (1914): President appojnted a commission to tack monopolies and it uprooted unfair trade factons of adulterations, mislabeling, bribery, unlawful competition, and false advertisement. 
Federal Reserve (1913): Established a federal reserve board appointed by the president and it oversaw twelve regional banks. They issued federal reserve notes from paper that increased circulation.
Federal Farm Loan Act (1916): This made credit available to farmers at low rates of interests. This was exactly what the Populists wanted.
Clayton Anti Trust Act of 1914: Much stronger than Sherman's Act of 1890 by lengthening 'objectionable' business practices such as price discrimination and interlocking directorates. In addition to that, it conferred long overdue benefits on labor. It sought to exempt labor and agricultural organizations from antitrust persecution, while legalizing strikes and peaceful picketing.
