1930s

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

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

• banks failed

• they all had their money in the wrong stocks

• they couldn't remember where they put it

• it was taken from them in the form of high tax rates

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

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

What tool - passed during the Hoover Administration -  designed to protect American manufacturers actually ended up creating a worldwide depression?

• Reconstruction Finance Committee
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• New Deal
• Second New Deal

What was the name of FDR's plan to reconstruct America following the Great Depression?

• No Deal
• New Deal
• Reconstruction
• FDR's Plan

During the Great Depression, there was a severe drought in the Great Plains. Strong prairie winds picked up the topsoil and spread dust everywhere. Many farm families packed everything up and moved west. What was this event called?

• Dust Bowl
• Salad Bowl
• Great Plains Panic
• Depressing Dust

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Which New Deal program gave jobs to young men between the ages of 18-25? The employees built roads, planted forests, and worked on irrigation and national park projects.

• CCC
• UGA
• WPA
• TVA

Which New Deal program had workers build roads, parks, bridges, airports, and buildings? This program also hired artists to paint murals and build sculptures.

• CCC
• WWW
• WPA
• TVA

Which New Deal program helped to build dams to control flooding and provide electricity throughout 7 states?

• TVA
• COP
• COM
• WPA