The Great Depression

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

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

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

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.

A time when business activity is very slow and people are out of work is known as a _____________.

• crash
• depression
• party
• low time

To make things worse during the Great Depression, there was a severe drought in the midwest.  Because the soil was so dry, wind caused dust storms that covered people's homes, and all of their belongings.  This was called the _______________

• Dust Bowl
• Dry Bowl
• Dirt Bowl
• Depression Bowl

During the 1930s, the conditions shown in this photograph occurred mainly

• on the Atlantic Coast
•  on the Great Plains
• in the Rocky Mountains
• in the Pacific Northwest

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

What year did the Great Depression begin?

• 1920
• 1930
• 1925
• 1929

If farmers take out loans to buy tractors and other new machinery, which one of these is not an effect of that?  

• The farmers could grow more crops
• The extra supply of food lowers food prices.
• Farmers were getting rich 
• Farmers lack the income to pay back their loans.

How did the law of supply and demand affect American farmers in the 1920s?  

• The supply of food exceeded the demand, so farmers had to lower prices in order to sell their crops.
• Farmers could raise their prices so that they made lots of money.
• The law didn't affect the farmers at all.
• The law didn't affect farmers until much later than the Great Depression.