The Great Depression

Who was the President of the United States when the Stock Market crashed?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Woodrow Wilson
• Theodore Roosevelt

Which of the following was one cause of the Great Depression?

• the invention of the radio
• people buying goods with credit
• World War 1
• Hoovervilles

The Great Depression was an economic slowdown in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Which of the following was one cause of the Great Depression in the United States?

• the high price of oil
• the end of the gold rush
• the end of World War II
• the crash of the stock exchange

The Great Depression that began in 1929 hit farmers especially hard. Farmers had not been doing well in the 1920’s and several years of severe drought turned the land into a “dust bowl.” What was an immediate result of this?

• Many farmers decided to grow crops that did not use much water
• Many farmers and their families lost their farms and moved West.

President Roosevelt won the election of 1932. The country was in the Great Depression and Roosevelt introduced the New Deal. Which was the MOST important goal of Roosevelt’s New Deal Programs?

• to strengthen the economy
• to end racial discrimination
• to get people working again
• to improve public education 

The New Deal was a government policy that changed many people’s lives. What is the MOST likely reason that the New Deal was created?

• to help people recovering from the Civil War
• to help people learn to vote
• to help people during the Great Depression
• to end World War II

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President of the U.S. after which President?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Ronald Regan
• John F. Kennedy
• Herbert Hoover

What event caused many banks to close?

• The Dust Bowl

• Auto and Construction Industry collapse

• The Stock Market crash

• High income inequality

Income inequality is _______________________

• When most people have equal amounts of money

• When you bring in lots of income

• When you bring in a little amount of income

• When much of the wealth is owned by the richest few

In 1930 lawmakers passed the _____________________ that put taxes on imports.

• Boot- Crawley Tariff

• New Deal

• Banking Act

• Smoot-Hawley tariff