Studies Weekly Week 24

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Which event worsened Alabama's recession? Options: the hurricane of 1929, the end of the war, the 1929 stock market crash

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the 1929 stock market crash

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During the Great Depression, children would be seen doing what? Options: fishing with thread from their clothing, wearing fertilizer sacks or burlap feed sacks, hunting with sharpened sticks

Back

wearing fertilizer sacks or burlap feed sacks

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Without jobs and wages, people had no other option but to do what?

Back

stand in long lines to receive free food

Front

What was Black Tuesday?

Back

the day the stock market crashed

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Why did some people look back on the Great Depression with pride?

Back

They survived despite great trouble and hardship.

Front

What did the Tennessee Valley Authority do?

Back

built dams that generated electric power

Front

What did the Social Security Act do?

Back

provided an old-age pension for retired workers

Front

What did the Works Progress Administration (WPA) pay people to do?

Back

build bridges, write books, sew