The Great Depression

Which of the following was one cause of the Great Depression?

• the invention of the radio
• people buying goods with credit
• World War 1
• Hoovervilles

The Great Depression was an economic slowdown in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Which of the following was one cause of the Great Depression in the United States?

• the high price of oil
• the end of the gold rush
• the end of World War II
• the crash of the stock exchange

What is one example of a charitable service during the depression?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Shantytowns
• Soup kitchens

Which of these was a direction that people migrated during the Great Depression?

• Oklahoma to California
• California to Detroit
• cities to farms
• Detroit to the South

President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to pass a series of acts called the New Deal. Which is one way the New Deal helped people of the Great Depression?

• It gave all people the right to vote
• It let people travel around the country freely
• It created programs to put people back to work
• It let all new immigrants become American citizens

What was the “New Deal” of the 1930’s?

• a government program designed to help people during the depression
• a government program that gave free land to homesteaders
• a government program that helped give women the right to vote
• a government program that spread civil rights throughout the country

The Great Depression that began in 1929 hit farmers especially hard. Farmers had not been doing well in the 1920’s and several years of severe drought turned the land into a “dust bowl.” What was an immediate result of this?

• Many farmers decided to grow crops that did not use much water
• Many farmers and their families lost their farms and moved West.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the largest program of the New Deal. It employed 8.5 million people. WPA programs included the creation of

• public buildings, roads, parks, and the arts
• electrical power plants in the Tennessee Valley
• kitchens to feed the hungry
• elevators in tall office buildings and shantytowns

During the Depression, many people lost their homes and were forced to live in shantytowns. Some people referred to these shantytowns as Hoovervilles because

• President Hoover had failed to act to fight the Depression
• President Hoover built the shantytowns
• President Hoover was very popular
• President Hoover died in office

The Dust Bowl was a problem with farmland that happened during the Great Depression. The topsoil of fields dried up and blew in huge storms throughout the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl happened for two MAIN reasons:

• farmers overplanted their fields and there was a drought
• New Deal programs ruined farms and there was a drought 
• farmers overplanted fields and President Hoover ended the New Deal
• farmers sent too much food to soup kitchens and did not save enough for themselves