Great Depression Review

What was the Great Depression?

• A successful company that was popular in the 1930's.

• A time when people moved from place to place.

• A party in the 1930's.

• A worldwide economic disaster. 

Match the following statement to each president.

Groups:

(a) Herbert Hoover

,

(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt

• was the president at the beginning of the Great Depression

• Elected in 1932

• was the president at the end of the Great Depression

• Elected in 1928

What is the stock market?

• A place where goods are stored.

• An organized system for buying and selling shares.

• An area of the United States.

• An animal that is found in exotic places.

Match the following items to their definition.

• Hoboes

• Newspapers that homeless people used for warmth. 

• Hoover Blankets

• People that road the rails looking for work.

• Bread Lines &

  Soup Kitchens

• Where homeless people lived, sometimes in cardboard boxes.

• Hoovervilles

• Local charities set these up to feed the hungry.

What are the causes of the Great Depression?

1. 1. Stock Market _____

2. 2. An __________ Economy

3. 3. Credit ______

4. 4. _____________ Depression

5. 5. ___________ and Poverty

(a)  

Effects of the Great Depression

1. _____ of Poverty

2. 2. ____ Savings

3. 3. ____________ (no job)

4. 4. Riding the _____

5. 5. Hoovervilles and _____ _____.

(a)  

What year was the height of the Great Depression?

• 1932

• 1933

• 1929

• 1942

What percentage of Americans were unemployed in 1933?

• 3%

• 9%

• 20%

• 25%

What sacrifices were made for families during the Great Depression?

• Families lived in Hoovervilles or dugouts.

• Teenagers left home to find work.

• Fathers took the blame and felt shameful.

• Families sold possessions.

The stock market crashed on October 29, (a)   .