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

A time when business activity is very slow and people are out of work is known as a _____________.

• crash
• depression
• party
• low time

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

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

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

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

This program provided jobs for millions of Americans, who were given the task of building roads, bridges, parks, airports and a plethora of other public facilities.

• CCC
• WPA
• TVA

What was the "New Deal" of the 1930s?

• a government program that gave free land to homesteaders 
• a government program that spread civil rights throughout the country
• a government program designed to help people during the depression 
• a government program that helped women get the vote 

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

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