The Great Depression and The New Deal

What was the name of Roosevelt's plan to get the economy out of a depression

• The New Deal

• The Golden Age

• The Good Plan

• The Federal Relief Plan

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Which New Deal program focused mainly on creating parks?

• TN Valley Authority

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Public Works Administration

• Civil Works Administration

The worst economic slump in history, lasting from 1929-1939.

• Stocks

• The Great Depression

• Stock Market Crash

• Unemployment

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When the total value of of all stocks plunged and were no longer worth much money. (October 1929)

• Works Progress Administration

• Stock Market Crash

• Social Security

• The New Deal

Charities or religious groups donated free meals to the hungry. People who did not have money lined up for these meals and formed bread lines to wait for free food-

• Drought

• Dust Bowl

• Recovery

• Soup kitchens

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A long period with unusually low rainfall, which hurts growing and living conditions.

• dust bowl

• a generation

• dry decade

• drought

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Massive dust storms from 1933-1937 were seen across the Great Plains due to severe drought. Thousands of farmers families had to move to other places for work.

• hurricane season

• Dust Bowl

• The Great Depression

• Hooverville

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A series of programs formed by president FDR to restore the economic system in the United States.

• The New Deal

• The Renaissance

• Works Progress Administration

• Social Security

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This president thought the federal government should not get involved in the economy. As a result, many Americans blamed him for the Great Depression. This caused him to lose the election in 1932.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Theodore Rooselvelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Calvin Coolidge

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Which of the following was not a cause of the Dust Bowl?

• The Great Plains suffered a drought.
• The invention of the tractor resulted in fields that were much too large.
• Powerful tornadoes ripped through the area.
• Over plowing left the ground vulnerable to erosion causing massive storms.