The Great Depression

The stock market crashed on a date known as Black Tuesday.  What is the date?

• October 28, 1929
• October 29, 1929
• October 29, 1928
• October 31, 1929

____________ was the President when the stock market crashed.  

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Theodore Roosevelt
• none of the above

The difference between Hoover and Roosevelt  is that ___________ believed that the government should help the people get out of the depression.  

• Roosevelt
• Hoover
• neither
• both

Roosevelt's plan to get the people out of the depression was known as the _____________.

• The Big Deal
• The New Plan
• The New Deal
• none of the above

_______________ was a period of great hardship in the United States.

• The Great Depression
• The Neal Deal
• Black Tuesday
• none of the above

_____________ was an author from Atlanta that wrote the book called Gone With the Wind

• Jesse Owens
• Duke Ellington
• Margaret Mitchell
• Zora Neale Hurston

__________ was an African American track star that competed in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.  

• Jesse Owens
• Duke Ellington
• Margaret Mitchell
• Louis Armstrong

__________ was a big band leader during the 1930s.  His career continued until he died in 1974.  

• Jesse Owens
• Margaret Mitchell
• Duke Ellington
• none of the above

The Great Plains experienced a drought that turned the soil into dust during the Great Depression.  This area was called the ___________.

• Dust Plain
• Dust Bowl
• Dust State
• None of the above

People lined up at __________ to get meals for their families during the Great Depression.  

• shelters
• restaurants
• soup kitchens
• stock market