Great Depression Powerpoint Quiz

The Great Depression began in

• 1925
• 1929
• 1932
• 1940

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What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
• Unemployment decreased gradually.
• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
• Hoover was re-elected as president.

Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

What natural disaster of the 1930s added insult to injury?

• Flooding along the Mississippi River
• The Dust Bowl
• Tornadoes called the Helen Hunt Twisters
• Hurricanes along the Gulf Coast

What program did Franklin Roosevelt create in order to help Americans during the Great depression?

• Roosevelts boys
• Newer Deal
• New Deal
• FDR's relief

President during the 1930s who was considered a failure because he couldn't fix the Great Depression.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Margaret Mitchell
• Jessie Owens

The president who promised the people a "New Deal" during the Great Depression.

• Jesse Owens
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• George Washington

Which of the following was NOT a problem facing the United States from 1929-1939.

• Many banks were closing because they ran out of money.
• The economy struggled because of all the money that had been  spent fighting in Europe.
• A drought hit the U.S. for several years causing many farmers' crops to fail.
• The stock market crashed causing people to lose millions and businesses to struggle.

During the Great Depression people were worried because the economy was doing poorly.  How did this fear affect their consumption of goods?

• People consumed more things because they thought they wouldn't be able to buy them later.
• People consumed fewer things because they wanted to save as much money as they could.
• People consumed more things because they wanted businesses to do better.
• People consumed fewer things because the government was rationing consumption.