The Great Depression and New Deal Quiz

What triggered the Great Depression in 1929?

• The stock market boomed causing Americans to become wealthy.

• The stock market crashed and many Americans lost all the money they had saved or gained.

• Americans became extremely depressed and did not go to work.

• Americans did not want to work because they gained wealth in the stock market.

President ______________, launched several large government reforms and programs, called______________

This program attempted to provide relief to struggling Americans in need and to promote economic recovery from the_______________. However, the program often excluded Black Americans and did little to address the

racism in American society, such as _______________in the South.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt, The New Deal

• The New Deal, Jim Crow Law

• Great Depression, Jim Crow Law

• Jim Crow Law, Dust Bowl

• Dust Bowl, Abraham Lincoln

A global conflict that took place from 1914 to 1918, known as one of the deadliest wars.

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A signed document by Germany and the Allied Nations formally ending WWI. Resulting in Germany losing money and territory.

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A form of government in which most of the country's power is held by one ruler and heavily controls the lives of the people in which it governs.

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A policy that avoids becoming involved with political or economic disputes in other countries that could lead to war.

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A period during the 1930's when America's economy was not working properly. Banks failed, many people lost their homes, farmers lost their farms resulting in many people out of work, hungry or homeless.

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How did United States involvement in World War II change by the end of 1941?

• The U.S. provided help to Allied Nations in the Lend-Lease Act.

• The U.S. continued to stay out of the WWII due to the Great Depression.

• The U.S. became allies with all countries to avoid war on US land.

• The U.S. entered WWII combat after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Which statement best describes the image?

• The Holocaust was meant to keep Jewish people safe during WWII.

• Jewish people including children were murdered by Nazis in concentration camps.

• Jewish children waited outside of concentration camps for their parents to be free.

• Children in the Holocaust worked for little money to help their families.

Why was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising significant?

• The hope that Jewish people had to fight back was lost.

• It proved the Jewish people did little to fight back against going to concentration camps.

• It proved that Jewish people did not fight against the Nazis.

• It proved the courage and bravery of the Jewish people during the Holocaust, they were not going away without a fight.