Great Depression

What events draw the United States into World War I?

• Zimmerman telegraph
• Sinking of Lusitania
• US ships are sunk by Germany
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Which New Deal program hired young men to help plant trees and work outside?

• FDIC
• CCC
• PWA
• Social Security

What events contributed to the Great Depression.

• Farmer were in a depression
• over-speculation of stocks
• the stock market crashes
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What happened on October 29, 1929? 

• stock market crashed
• WWI ended
• Franklin Roosevelt was elected
• stock market reached an all-time high

Which New Deal program was started to protect the banks and their customers?

• FDIC
• CCC
• PWA
• FERA

Places where people might live that were homeless during the Great Depression.

• Condo
• Tenements
• Ethnic Neighborhoods
• Hoovervilles

A program started under the New Deal helped create a retirement fund so when people retired they still had an income.

• FERA
• Social Security
• Dust Bowl

Explain the New Deal.

• Group of government programs created to try and end the Great Depression.
• The Social Security Act
• Minimal improvement in economy. FDR urged congress to pass additional programs.

In which ways did the programs get Americans back to work?

• The needy were given no food
• Mortgages had very high interest.
• Unemployed were hired to build community buildings, repair roads, flood control, and other conservation (environment) projects.

Which is the best answer about dust storms that occurred during "the Dust Bowl"?

• loss of farms and livestock
• homes were destroyed
• Farmers moved to other states
• ALL of these are effects of the dust storms