Early 20th Century Test Review

This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest 

• Tornados
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday 
• Hurricanes

The President who was mostly blamed for worsening the Great Depression 

• Roosevelt 
• Eisenhower
• Hoover
• Jefferson

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

The name given to the programs enforced by FDR to ensure relief, recovery and reform. 

• Stock Market 
• Great Depression
• Margin 
• New Deal 

This President enforced both New Deals and saw America through the Great Depression and World War II. 

• Eisenhower
• Truman
• Hoover
• Roosevelt 

This New Deal program insured the public's deposits to make sure that the bank runs never happened again 

• PWA
• WPA
• SSA
• FDIC

Which one of the following states was not considered in the Dust Bowl area?

• Oklahoma
• Texas
• New Mexico
• Utah

When did the Dust Bowl take place?

• 1920's
• 1930's
• 1940's
• 1950's

Which of these men is the author of books set during the Great Depression, including OF MICE AND MEN and THE GRAPES OF WRATH?

• John Steinbeck
• Alfred Knopf
• Thomas Nelson
• Douglas Peebles

What was one HUMAN cause of "the Dust Bowl"?

• plowing up millions of acres of grass to plant wheat
• allowing cattle to overgraze the midwestern U.S.
• overproduction of cotton and wheat crops
• ALL of these were human causes of "the Dust Bowl"

What else was going on at the same time as the Dust Bowl?

• Great Depression

• World War I

• Gold Rush

• Westward Expansion