Great Depression and The New Deal Review

When did the Stock Market Crash and begin the Great Depression?

• 1919

• 1929

• 1930

• 1941

The Great Depression can BEST be described as

• financial and economic instability and high unemployment

• financial and economic instability and low unemployment

• financial and economic stability and high unemployment

• financial and economic stability and low unemployment

Which of the following relief helped feed those suffering in the Great Depression?

• Victory Gardens

• Soup Kitchens

• WPA

• CCC

What created the Dust Bowl?

• Poor farming practices, windstorms, and drought

• Broken tractors and crop disease

• Hurricanes and wind storms

• drought, windstorms and crop disease

Who did some Americans blame for not helping them more in the Great Depression?

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Stock Brokers

• Banks

A newspaper headline read: Hundreds of America's Farmers Homeless and Unemployed. What event does this headline refer to?

• The New Deal

• The Stock Market Crash

• The Mortgage Crisis

• The Dust Bowl

What main event contributed to the Americans standing in line waiting for a relief check?

• Collapse of the Soviet Union

• Rationing during the civil war

• The Stock Market Crash

• The Dust Bowl

Who was the president of the U.S. when the Stock Market crashed?

• Herbert Hoover

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Ronald Reagan

In what region of the U.S. did the Dust Bowl occur?

• Southeast

• Midwest

• Northeast

• Northwest

Which event is the cause of the Great Depression?

• The New Deal

• The Dust Bowl

• The Mortgage Crisis

• The Stock Market Crash