Great Depression

Reorder the following events that led to the Great Depression

• Businesses closed

• Americans were unable to get their money from the banks.

• The Stock Market Crashed

• The Banks closed.

• People lost their homes

The massive drought that happened at the same time as the Great Depression was called

• The Dust Bowl

• The Gold Rush

• Exodusters

• Reconstruction

Communities, like the one in this picture, where homeless Americans set up shacks to live in were called

• Hoovervilles

• Roosevelt Islands

• Tenements

• Levittowns

Which president didn't feel like it was his job to help Americans recover from the Great Depression?

• Herbert Hoover

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge

FDR helped gain peoples trust by reassuring them that he had a plan to help fix the Great Depression. What did he call this program?

• The New Deal

• The Fair Deal

• The Square Deal

• The Bad Deal

Most relief programs during the New Deal helped people get _______.

• Jobs

• Houses

• shoes

• food

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

Which TWO answers best describe President Herbert Hoover's presidency during the Great Depression?

• A very hands-on government

• Mostly hands-off government

• Largely unable to better economic conditions

• Created many New Deal programs

Who was president when the stock market crashed?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What caused the Great Depression and when did it occur?

• stocks lost their value & investors lost their money in October 1929

• stocks lost their value & investors gained money in October 1929

• stocks were sold and investors lost money in October 1928

• stocks were sold and investors lost money in October 1933