The Great Depression Vocabulary Quiz

the condition of being out of work, began to grow. 

• stock market
• unemployment
• credit
• Herbert Hoover

The President of the United States that did not know how to handle the Great Depression.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Bill Clinton
• Woodrow Wilson
• Herbert Hoover

A place where stocks are bought and sold. If a com pany needs to raise money, it often sells stocks, or shares of the company, to inves tors called stockholders.

• Hoovervilles
• credit
• stock market
• Dust Bowl

One reason why the crash had caused panic among investors was that many of them had bought their stocks on 

• credit/loans
• food
• trades
• none

A period of economic hardships in the United States and people lost jobs, money, homes, etc

• Roaring 20s
• World War 1
• Great Depression
• Industrial Revolution

Who was the President that formed the New Deal?

• George Bush
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Barack Obama

New Deal programs such as __________ are still in affect today.

• Social Security
• unemployment
• Hoovervilles
• speakeasies

 A long period without rainfall hit the Great Plains in the 1930s.

• drought
• credit
• mud
• Dust Bowl

A rapid rise in prices that was out of control. 

• stock market
• the CCC
• inflation
• credit

An event when farmers plowed large areas of dry land caused this event to start.

• Dust Bowl
• stock market crash
• soup kitchen
• crop