Great Depression and New Deal Graded Quiz

When did the Great Depression begin?

• 1914

• 1929

• 1954

• 1964

Who was the president at the start of the Great Depression?

• Warren Harding

• Herbert Hoover

• FDR

• JFK

What happened on Black Tuesday?

• The stock market closed for a week.

• The stock market went way up.

• The stock market crashed.

• The stock market moved to Washington from New York.

In the weeks before Black Tuesday, stocks were more valuable than they'd ever been before. However, people became more anxious about the future of the economy. Soon, everyone wanted to sell their stocks. Why would that lead to a stock market crash?

• There were not enough buyers, so sellers had to keep lowering their prices (making stocks less valuable).

• There were too many buyers and not enough stock.

• There were not enough sellers, so buyers had to pay more (making stocks more valuable).

When the Great Depression began, many Americans were deep in debt. What does that mean?

• There stocks were not doing well.

• They owed a lot of money.

• They didn't have enough money in the bank.

• They could not find jobs.

Why did the effects of the Great Depression extend beyond the US?

• Numerous other countries' stock markets also collapsed.

• The US began trading less and buying less from other countries.

• The US put a stop on imports.

What are people doing in this photo from the Great Depression?

• Voting for the president

• buying tickets for a baseball game

• getting free food from a soup kitchen

• signing up for the military

Who was elected president after Hoover?

• FDR

• JFK

• Calvin Coolidge

• Ronald Reagan

What was the New Deal?

• A new political party that was against FDR.

• The president's plan to lower income taxes.

• A set of plans to fix the American economy.

• An idea to clean up the Hoovervilles.

What were the main goals of the New Deal? Check all that apply

• making banks more trustworthy

• to overtake some smaller countries

• protect the US from threatening nations

• to create programs to help those that could not work like the sick and elderly

• to create jobs to get people back to work