U.S. History Formative Assessment # 3

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

• Tornados
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday 
• Hurricanes

When people went to the bank to withdraw their money and the banks had no money was known as the 

• Bank Crisis 
• Black Tuesday
• Stock Market Crash
• New Deal 

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

• Stock Market 
• Great Depression
• Margin 
• New Deal 

On October 29, 1929 share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and partially caused the Great Depression.

• Black Thursday
• Black Tuesday 
• Black Friday
• Black Sunday 

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Even though war was breaking out in Europe again, America decided to remain 

• Isolated
• Involved with the Allies
• Involved with the Axis
• Scared

A time in America following the roaring 20's where America experience rising unemployment that did not end until the onset of World War II. 

• New Deal
• Roaring 20's
• Great Depression
• Cold War 

During the Great Depression, many people were unemployed.  This means that they lost their ____________.

• jobs
• homes
• families
• friends

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To make things worse during the Great Depression, there was a severe drought in the midwest.  Because the soil was so dry, wind caused dust storms that covered people's homes, and all of their belongings.  This was called the _______________

• Dust Bowl
• Dry Bowl
• Dirt Bowl
• Depression Bowl

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The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a "New Deal" was _________________.

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln
• Grover Cleveland

During the 1930s, the conditions shown in this photograph occurred mainly

• on the Atlantic Coast
•  on the Great Plains
• in the Rocky Mountains
• in the Pacific Northwest