Great Depression

What marked the end of the economic boom of the 1920s? 

• World War I ended
• The Stock Market crashed
• Black Blizzards
• Prohibition

Which of the following describes what happened during the stock market crash of 1929? 

• Stock prices fell and many investors sold their stocks
• Stock prices rose and investors sold their stocks
• Stock prices fell and investors purchased stocks
• Stock prices rose and investors purchased stocks

Which is NOT a part of the domino effect of the Great Depression?

• decrease wages
• decrease buying power
• decrease prices
• decrease unemployment

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the hard times of the 1930's?

• Farmers suffered from overproduction of crops
• Loans/debts to banks were not paid and they went broke
• Highly paid factory workers purchased more of the products they made
• stock market crashed

Which of the following is NOT a way in which the hard times of the 1930's affected the lives of many Americans? 

• many people lost their homes as unemployment increased
• people left failing farms to migrate to cities and work
• shantytowns sprang up nicknamed Hoovervilles
• people moved to the Dust Bowl looking for jobs as migrant workers

Young men and women who took to the highways or rode the rails from town to town seeking work or a handout, became known as

• CCC
• flappers
• bootleggers
• hoboes

Hoovervilles are best described as

• tenements
• railroad cars
• scrap lumber homes
• wealthy homes

Suppose a mother was migrating to California from Oklahoma. What could be a nickname for the mother and children? 

• Hoboes
• Sharecroppers
• Okies
• flappers

What was the nickname for the drought and storm-hit areas of Oklahoma and the Great Plains (aka Midwest) during the 1930's?

• New Deal
• Great Migration
• Dust Bowl
• Westward Expansion

Franklin D. Roosevelt did NOT try to help our country through the 1930's by:

• insisting that the government stay out of the problems and let them alone
• creating relief programs to help families that were hungry
• designing reform laws to correct problems that led to the hard times
• working to help the economy recover and create jobs