Great Depression Review

The __________________  was the longest period of unemployment and low economic activity in the 1900's.

• New Deal
• Great Depression
• Dust Bowl
• Civil War

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

A time when business activity is very slow and people are out of work is known as a _____________.

• crash
• depression
• party
• low time

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it

What was the name of FDR's plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression?

• New Deal
• Great Deal
• Social Security
• the New Liberalism

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

In the 1930s, what made farmers migrate from the Great Plains?

• high farm prices
• new technologies 
• Dust Bowl
• baby boom

New Deal programs like CCC and WPA were made to help

• farmers
• home owners
•  businesses
• unemployed workers

Nickname for Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Black Tuesday
• Dooms Day
• Black Thursday
• Dooms Friday

Roosevelt's collection of laws and programs to help the nation deal with the Depression was known as

• the New Deal.
• the Square Deal.
• the Hundred Days.
• Public Works.

In the 1930's, people would line up at ____________ to get food.  These were normally run by charities.

• churches
• businesses
• soup kitchens
• work

What year did the stock market crash?

• 1925
• 1929
• 1933
• 1937