Great Depression / New Deal Test Practice

Which of the following describes what happened during the stock market crash of 1929?

• Stock prices fell and many investors sold their stocks.

• Stock prices rose and many investors purchased stock.

• Stock prices fell and many investors purchased stock.

• Stock prices rose and many investors purchased stocks.

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

• The stock market crashed.

• High tariffs were placed on imported and exported goods.

• Many people borrowed money from banks, which they could not pay back.

• There was a sharp increase in the price of manufactured goods.

Which of the following decribes a way in which the Great Depression affected the lives of many Americans?

• Many people moved from shantytowns to suburbs

• Many children quit school to help their families earn money.

• More people got married immediatly after high school or college.

• Famers were hurt by the effects of tarrifs and rising crop prices.

Which New Deal program improved the infastructure of the US by building roads and bridges?

• Farm Security Administration

• Social Security

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Works Progress Administration

What was an effect of the Dust Bowl?

• many factories laid off workers

• many families left California and headed east.

• many people became migrant workers

• many farmers moved to the Great Plains.

This agency built dams throughout a seven state region to control floods and generate electricity.

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Works Progress Adminsitration

• Tenessess Valley Authority

• Social Security Administration

The Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC was an organization created during the great depression as part of the new deal. It created jobs for people for who didn't have work. What kind of work did people do as part of the CCC?

• create cheap hydroelectricity from dams

• building roads and dams

• helping out in state and national forests, planting trees and making trails.

• building schools and libraries

Why did Americans elect FDR as President of the United States?

• He wanted to increase taxes

• he believed that government should NOT help change the economy.

• He gave Americans new hope.

• He did NOT believe in government regulations.

How was President Roosevelt different from President Hoover?

• President Hoover believed that the government should take action to help people during the great depression

• President Roosevelt believed that the government should take action to help people during the great depression.

• President Hoover started the New Deal.

• President Roosevelt was President before President Hoover.

New Deal program that helps people get mortgage loans from banks.

• Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)