The Great Depression Review

What percentage of American workers were unemployed during the Great Depression?

• 100%

• 50%

• 25%

• 10%

The day that the stock market failed was called what?

• D-Day

• Armistice Day

• Wednesday

• Black Tuesday

The Great Depression started in _____ and ended in approximately ____.

• 1860, 1865

• 1920, 1929

• 1929, 1940

• 1941, 1945

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A percentage of a company that can be bought and sold is called _____?

• margin

• trades

• stocks

• units

Which of the following was NOT an aspect of the New Deal?

• Started by Herbert Hoover

• Began programs that put people to work building roads, schools and parks
  

• Created farm assistance programs
  

• Provided unemployment insurance and pensions
  

Shanty towns with run down shacks made of things like cardboard and scrap materials were called ______?

• Whovilles

• Cul-de-sacs

• Hoovervilles

• Ranches

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Where would someone go for a free hot meal during the Great Depression?

• Hooverville

• Soup Kitchen

• Dust Bowl

• Wall Street

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Which of these programs were part of FDR's New Deal? (*Multiple correct answers!)

• FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

• FSA (Farm Security Administration)

• CRAAP (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose)

• WPA (Works Progress Administration)

All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl (*Multiple correct answers!)

• Poor farming practices

• Over-hunting of Buffalo

• Extreme Winds

• Drought

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This was the name given to World War I Veterans who asked for their government money early (rather than waiting until 1945)

• Red Army

• Trench Foot Army

• Roosevelt's Army

• Bonus Army

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