Great Depression & WWII

What caused the Great Depression to be damaging to the agricultural sector? 

• the stock market crash
• a severe drought
• huge insects
• high unemployment

The New Deal Programs were enacted by which president?

• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln
• George Washington

Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed and Depression began?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• William McKinley

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

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

• TVA
• COP
• COM
• WPA

People who could no longer afford their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they built in public parks. What were these shacks called?

• Shantyshacks
• Town Homes
• Tenement Housing
• Hoovervilles

What event caused the US to enter WWII?

• The Sinking of the Lusitania

• The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese

• The Allied landing on the beach of Normandy

• The Invasion of Poland by the Germans

The rights of citizens fourth and fourteenth amendments were violated when the US authorized the establishment of -

• The death penalty for military desertion

• Nuclear test sites

• Japanese-American internment camps

• Office of War Information

Which of these factors had the greatest impact on the Dust Bowl?

• Flash flooding and extreme deforestation

• Prolonged drought and poor farming practices

• High winds and railroad construction

• Severe Heat and rapid sharecropping.