Great Depression Vocabulary Pre-Test

What was the period of severe economic downturn in the United States during the 1930s?

• Roaring Twenties

• Great Depression

• Industrial Revolution

• Cold War

What term is used to describe the collapse of a bank due to its inability to meet financial obligations?

• Bankruptcy

• Bank Failure

• Bankruptcy

• Bank Default

What is the term for a situation where a large number of people withdraw their money from a bank simultaneously?

• Bankruptcy

• Bank Failure

• Bank Run

• Bank Default

Which legislation passed in 1930 raised tariffs on imported goods, leading to a decline in international trade?

• Smoot-Harley Tariff Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Homestead Act

What event in 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression?

• Stock Market Crash

• Gold Rush

• Boston Tea Party

• Declaration of Independence

Area of the Great Plains that experienced huge dust storms during the Great Depression; the storms were a result of drought, high winds, and poor farming methods; as a result of the storms, many migrated to other areas of the country - ____________

• Dusty Plains
• Stormy Fields
• Dust Bowl
• Dryland Disaster

1. (1895–1965), US photographer; She was known for her documentary photographs of the Great Depression, including “White Angel Breadline” (1932), and those of the Japanese American internment camps around 1942. Many of her later photo-essays were published in Life magazine -_________

• Dorothea Lange
• Edward Weston
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Ansel Adams

A migrant agricultural worker from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave during the Depression of the 1930s; termed as a native from Oklahoma - ___________

• Texan
• Californian
• Floridian
• Okie

Methods of feeding the neediest people in the country during the Great Depression; set up as places where the poor could eat free or cheap food - ______________

• soup kitchens or bread lines

• Homeless shelters
• Food banks
• Charity organizations

What was called the Lame Duck Amendment -___________

• 16th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 21st Amendment