Great Depression Review

What program did Franklin Roosevelt create in order to help Americans during the Great depression?

• Roosevelts boys
• Newer Deal
• New Deal
• FDR's relief

President during the 1930s who was considered a failure because he couldn't fix the Great Depression.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Margaret Mitchell
• Jessie Owens

The president who promised the people a "New Deal" during the Great Depression.

• Jesse Owens
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• George Washington

Hundreds of thousands of people couldn't find jobs during the great depression.  Many people who couldn't find work couldn't afford to buy food so they had to go to

• Homeless shelters
• Soup kitchens

Bob lived during a time when there were large dust storms and no rain for weeks or months at a time.  This was known as the

• Great Recession
• TVA
• Dust Bowl
• CCC

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
• Unemployment decreased gradually.
• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
• Hoover was re-elected as president.

In the 1930's, people would line up at ____________ to get food.  These were normally run by charities.

• churches
• businesses
• soup kitchens
• work

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

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?

• low worker productivity
• high income taxes
• decreasing tariff rates
• buying stocks on margin