The Great Depression

Who was the President that led the United States out of The Great Depression?

• Herbert Hoover

• Lyndon Johnson

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Eugene Talmadge

Reord the following in the order in which they happened?

• The Great Depression

• WWI

• The Revolutionary

  War

• The Civil War

• WWII

Match the following

• partnering with someone with a shared goal

• alliances

• leader of Austria-Hungary who was assassinated to begin WWI.

• Zimmer Telegram

• German Telegram intercepted headed to Mexico

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• not choosing sides

• neutrality

Franklin D. Roosevelt was an excellent President.

• true

• false

The specific event that led to The Great Depression was .....

• The Stock Market Crash

• The Zimmerman Telegraph

• The sinking of the Lusitania

• None of the above

Herbert Hoover was the President of the United States at the beginning of The Great Depression.

• true

• false

What disease did Franklin Roosevlet suffer from?

• Covid 19

• Chicken Pox

• Polio

• Measles

How did an economic recession help cause the Great Depression?

• Americans bought less, causing less demand for goods

• Bank runs caused depositors to withdraw all their money from banks

• The market bubble popped, crashing Wall Street

• Low interest rates encouraged risky speculation

What is a recession?

• Risky speculation on Wall Street

• When bank depositors withdraw all their money

• A period of economic downturn

• A period of economic upturn

What caused many farmers to foreclose on their farms in the 1930s?

• Growing too few crops

• Overproduction of crops and costs of machines

• Expensive land and not enough workers

• The Wall Street Crash