Stock Market crash & The Great Depression

What is unemployment?

• The number of people who are fired. 
• The number of people with jobs. 
• The number of people who are looking for a job but can't find one. 
• The number of people who applied for a job during the Great Depression. 

What happened after the stock market crash?

• People borrowed money to buy more stocks.
• There was a boom in the economy. 
• The economy grew strong.  
• The economy grew weak. 

Which of the following statements best describes what happened on Black Tuesday?

• Stock prices fell and the stock market crashed.
• Bank runs forced many banks to close their doors.
• Federal troops attacked the Bonus Army marchers.
• The Supreme Court ruled that the NRA was unconstitutional.

Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover

Why is President Franklin D. Roosevelt often given credit for helping Americans survive the Great Depression?

• He came from a wealthy family. 
• He helped create the New Deal
• He created Hoovervilles for people to live in. 
• He told people they should stand in soup lines for food. 

What was one major result of the Dust Bowl?

• increased nativist sentiment in the Midwest
• creation of the Environmental Protection Agency
• demands made by the Populist Movement
• migration of agricultural laborers to California

Which action most helped end the Great Depression?

• the creation of Square Deal programs
• the regulations placed on trusts
• the outbreak of World War II
• the rationing of natural resources

Which US President helped create the FDIC which is still protecting bank money today?

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Ben Franklin
• Franklin Roosevelt

The aftermath of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 included

• the closing of banks
• low rate of unemployment
• credit bailouts
• circuit breakers

President Franklin Roosevelt won the election of 1932. The country was in the Great Depression, and Roosevelt introduced the New Deal. Which was the MOST important goal of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs?

• to strengthen the economy 
• to avoid going to war 
• to improve public education 
• to end racial discrimination