Great Depression and New Deal

The U.S. economy was booming and many people believed it would continue to grow, so they invested money in what during the 1920s?

• cars

• banks

• stock market

• lottery

In October 1929, stocks began to lose their value causing the ________

• Stock market crash

• Baby boom

• Roaring 20's

• New Deal

The Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the beginning of a recession that became the ______.

• Market Day

• New Deal

• Great Depression

• Great Awakening

A recession is a downturn in the economy. A ________ is a long and very bad recession

• economy

• recession

• awakening

• depression

The Great Depression lasted almost ____ years, and stock prices did not fully recover until 1954.

• two

• five

• ten

• twenty

____________ were places where people lived, in tents and shacks during the Great Depression because they were unemployed and in debt.

• Treatytowns

• Shantytowns

• Campground

• Trailor Park

Many Americans blamed President _________, who was president during the start of the Great Depression.

• George Washington

• Herbert Hoover

• Roosevelt

• Ronald Reagan

Farmers also suffered during the Great Depression.

The _______ is a term for the farmlands of the Great Plains that were destroyed in the 1930s.

• Dust Bowl

• Rainy Days

• Farm Freedom

• Crop Dust

In 1932, ________ was elected president. He had been crippled by the disease polio, and he needed a wheelchair and crutches and was elected 4 times in a row.

• George Bush

• Herbet Hoover

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Abraham Lincoln

FDR's _______ was made up of a series of government programs designed to help the country. Until the deal, the federal government had not helped people or the economy in the same way. Many New Deal programs, such as Social Security, are still in effect.

• New Captain

• New Deal

• True Beginnings

• Stock Market