The Great Depression Week 20

True or False: The 1920s were called the Roaring Twenties.

• True

• False

True or False: The stock market crashed on November 29, 1929.

• True

• False

True or False: The Civilian Conservation Corps put young men to work building dams and widening the Tennessee River.

• True

• False

True or False: The Social Security Act provided old age pensions for retired workers.

• True

• False

True or False: President Roosevelt asked Congress to start up programs to put people back to work during the Depression.

• True

• False

The day the stock market crashed was called ______.

• Black Wednesday

• Terrible Tuesday

• Black Tuesday

• Black Friday

The stock market crashed because ___.

• The value of stocks increased too quickly.

• Too many people tried to buy stocks at one time.

• The value of stocks fell to almost nothing.

The Great Depression was caused by which of the following. Select all that apply.

• Americans were producing more goods than they could sell.

• Foreign countries were no longer buying American products.

• The war years were over so there was no longer the need to send extra goods to troops.

Government programs that helped put people back to work during the Depression were called ___.

• New Deal

• New Jobs

• New Start

Soup kitchens were ___.

• places set up by the mayor of each town for people to pick up surplus food.

• places set up by churches and agencies to feed people.

• places where people learned to make soup.