Great Depression Review

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

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

• Roosevelts boys
• New Deal
• FDR's relief

What was one of the purposes for establishing the Social Security Program during the new deal?

• It provided jobs for youths.

• It provided pensions for retired workers.

• It established age requirements for public schools.

• It provided medical care for workers.

Who was President during The Great Depression?

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Bill Clinton
• Woodrow Wilson

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

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• William McKinley

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.

The photograph best illustrates which impact of the Great Depression upon Americans

• Large numbers of people were, hungry and unemployed

• Workers were able to afford luxury items

• banks were seizing property for failure to pay

• Workers' income rose to high levels

People who could no longer afford to live in their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they build in public parks. What were these shacks called?

• Shantyshacks

• Tenement Housing

• Town Homes

• Hoovervilles

Speculation

• a process in which a union representative or a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract
• a network of banks that lend money to help businesses get started
• food, supplies, or goods in excess of what is needed; extra
• to buy or sell stocks or land, hoping to gain huge profits quickly

Which of the following is a legacy of the New Deal?

• an increase in the size of the federal government

• an increase in the power of each state government

• a decrease in the federal government's power to regulate taxes

• a decrease in the states' ability to pay elected officials