American II: Great Depression and WW2

Which was NOT a LONG-TERM cause of the Great Depression?

• Buying stock on margin
• Stock market crash (Black Tuesday)
• too much production and consumer spending
• Laisezz-faire economic policies

The Great Depression began in

• 1925
• 1929
• 1932
• 1940

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
• Unemployment decreased gradually.
• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
• Hoover was re-elected as president.

Roosevelt's collection of laws and programs to help the nation deal with the Depression was known as

• the New Deal.
• the Square Deal.
• the Hundred Days.
• Public Works.

Recovery from the Great Depression was accomplished by

• public works programs.
• the Social Security Act.
• The National Recovery Administration.
• the outbreak of World War II.

The __________________  was the longest period of unemployment and low economic activity in the 1900's.

• New Deal
• Great Depression
• Dust Bowl
• Civil War

Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover

In the 1930's, people would line up at ____________ to get food.  These were normally run by charities.

• churches
• businesses
• soup kitchens
• work

The stock market crash of 1929 was one of the main causes of the Great Depression.  On this one day, October 29, 1929, the stock market lost $14 billion.  This day is known as ________________.

• Bad Tuesday
• Poor Tuesday
• Black Tuesday
• Crash Tuesday

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it