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Great Depression/New Deal

Authored by Christopher Craddock

Social Studies

11th Grade

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Great Depression/New Deal
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

What is speculation?

Paying a small part of the stocks prices as a down payment on a loan

Soldiers from WWI left jobless

Buying and selling stock in hope of making a quick profit

Borrowed money to fund government programing

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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

Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
William McKinley

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

How did Herbert Hoover say the government should help the people?

He said that the government should give everyone million dollars each.

He said the government should leave the helping to charity organizations.

He said that we should build airplanes to gather cloud fuzz.

He created jobs for people who needed jobs.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Overproduction

taxes places on imported good—good coming into a country-- to protect domestic businesses from foreign competition
aid in the form of goods or money to help the needy
actions, laws or procedures to prevent future depressions
when factories make more than people will buy or when supply exceeds demand

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 5 pts

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

overproduction and underconsumption
a decrease in the supply of consumer goods
an increase in demand for imported products
an increase in the price of wheat on the world market

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