Great Depression Quiz

One of the major problems with the stock market in the late 1920s was the number of people who bought stocks

• On the margin, with borrowed money

• In companies they supported

• Only after carefully studying a company’s history

• Without knowing their stockholder’s reputation

Which of the following was a root cause of the Great Depression?

• Prohibiting the sale of alcohol

• Giving women the right to vote

• Uneven distribution of income

• The end of federal control of banks

Drought and ______________ brought about the conditions that caused the Dust Bowl

• Overgrazing at large cattle farms

• The near-extinction of the buffalo

• Famine

• Poor farming practices

The people who lost their homes in the Great Depression sometimes lived

• In shantytowns called “Hoovervilles”

• In roadside motels

• On the lawn of the US Capitol

• In public libraries opened to them

Despite the poverty of the 1930s, more than 60 million people went to the movies weekly. Why were movies so popular?

• The special effects used in movies were amazing

• People could not get over the fact that actors talked

• Movies offered an escape from viewers’ hard lives

• Theaters were air conditions and offered free popcorn

Hover was slow to respond to the economic crisis because he opposed

• All public works projects

• The federal government helping people

• Investing in stocks

• Private charities

How did American citizens respond to the Great Depression in the 1932 election?

• By reelecting Hoover

• By electing socialist candidates

• By staying away from the polls

• By electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What was Hoover’s response to the Bonus Army marchers who came to Washington, D.C.?

• He ordered them to be paid their bonuses

• He had the army remove them and burn their belongings

• He visited them and listened to them

• He set up soup kitchens to feed them

The agencies and legislation that FDR created to try to provide relief to the American people during the Great Depression was part of a program known as the

• Square Deal

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• New Deal

• Hundred Days

The _______ was created to protect bank deposits.

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Home Owners Loan Corporation

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation