Great Depression

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

• jobs
• homes
• families
• friends

During the Great Depression, many people did lose their homes because they couldn't pay for them. They had to live in makeshift "houses" made out of cardboard or whatever supplies they could find. These were called what?

• Hoovervilles

• Neighborhoods

• Hoover Wagons

• Homeless villages

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

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

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

An effect of the Great Depression was...

• Everyone bought more stocks.
• large numbers of people were hungry and homeless.
• Farmers became rich.
• Many people moved to the South during the Great Migration South.

What did the Social Security Act of the New Deal Program do?

• It gave young unemployed people jobs building parks and planting trees.

• It restored trust in the banking system by promising Americans their money was safe in the bank.

• It gave paychecks to elderly, retired, disabled, and people laid off from their jobs.

• It helped with trading and stopped hard investments that led to the stock market crash.

Who was the President of the United States when the Stock Market crashed?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Woodrow Wilson
• Theodore Roosevelt

How did the failure of the banking systems effect the American people during the Great Depression?

• Banks eventually ran out of money, and people's life savings were gone.

• Banks made loans throughout the Great Depression, helping people pays bills until they could find work.

• Banks were able to take people's money and keep it safe, but they could not loan out any more money.

• Banks were not at all involved in the Great Depression because people did not use them.

The place where stocks and bonds are traded and sold everyday. This is ownership in a company.

• Money spending

• New Deal

• Money trading

• Stock Market

Charities that provided bread and soup to homeless and jobless people during the Depression were called _______?

• Salvation Army

• Soup and Salad Bowls

• Soup Kitchens

• Goodwill