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

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

The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a "New Deal" was _________________.

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln
• Grover Cleveland

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which of the following is the most valid statement regarding the long-term economic effects of  the Great Depression? 

• The government placed fewer restrictions on large corporations
• The role of the federal government was expanded
• The government reduced its dependence on foreign trade
• The American people had greater confidence in the nation’s economic leadership

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

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

This program hired young men ages 18-26 who were unemployed and paid them to work mostly on outdoor projects such as national parks and planting trees (helped to prevent erosion which was prevalent because of over farming).

• CCC
• TVA
• WPA

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

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

Nickname for Stock Market Crash of 1929

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

What year did the stock market crash?

• 1925
• 1929
• 1933
• 1937

Many unemployed young men and some young women rode the rails from town to town seeking work were called what?

• okies

• hoboes

• Billy Bob

• laid off