The Great Depression

During the Roaring Twenties, the US had just got out of __________, and business was booming.

• World War I

• World War II

• The Great Recession

• The Great Depression

In the 1920s, many Americans invested money in the ______ market.

• black

• credit

• share

• stock

True or False: The value of a share in a company hardly ever changes.

• True

• False

What happened in the summer of 1929?

• Production of goods increased, and employment rose.

• Americans paid back the money that they had borrowed to buy stocks.

• Americans sold millions of shares, and the stock market crashed.

• Production of goods decreased, and employment dropped

What happened on Black Tuesday in October 1929?

• Factories shut down and cut millions of positions.

• Americans paid back the money that they had borrowed to buy stocks.

• Companies sold millions of shares, and the stock market crashed.

• Americans sold millions of shares, and the stock market crashed.

The ____________ caused food shortages in the southwestern Great Plains.

• Dust Bowl

• Depression Drought

• Drought Bowl

What is another term for shantytowns?

• depression houses

• Hoovervilles

• Hoover slums

• Rooseveltvilles

At the beginning of the Great Depression, which president did many Americans blame for their problems?

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• President Theodore Roosevelt

• President Woodrow Wilson

• President Herbert Hoover

Which of the following are programs that were part of the New Deal?

• the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Pension Act

• the Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act

  D

• the Works Progress Administration and the Tennessee Veterans' Authority

• the Social Security Act and the Employment Administration

The Social Security Act of 1935 guaranteed

• citizenship for working immigrants who moved to America.

• employment for workers who would construct public buildings.

• pensions for the retired elderly and unemployment money for the jobless.

• access to education for children from impoverished families.