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WorksheetsThe New Deal and the Great Depression
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 27mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who was president during the New Deal?
a)
Theodore Rooesvelt
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
Herbert Hoover
d)
Woodrow Wilson
2.
Which of the following New Deal laws/agencies regulated the buying and selling of stocks?
a)
Securities and Exchange Commission
b)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
c)
Emergency Banking Act
d)
Home Owners Insurance Corporation
3.
What natural calamity coincided with the New Deal and caused intensified and increased poverty throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other parts of the south?
a)
the bank holiday
b)
the great flood of 1927
c)
the dustbowl
d)
increaded lynchings
4.
What was the culminating event that brought the country out of the Great Depression?
a)
the Bonus Army
b)
the building of the Hoover Dam
c)
going off of the gold standard
d)
World War II
5.
What was the name of FDR's plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression?
a)
New Deal
b)
Great Deal
c)
Social Security
d)
the New Liberalism
6.
What were the major goals of the New Deal?
a)
no gold standard and free coinage of silver
b)
abolition and suffrage
c)
relief, recovery, and reform
d)
expanding the size and economic influence of the United States
7.
Which agency paid young adults to build national parks?
a)
Works Progress Adminstration
b)
Civilian Conservation Corps
c)
Tennessee Valley Authority
d)
Bonus Army
8.
What New Deal goal was met by giving help to people in need?
a)
relief
b)
recovery
c)
reform
d)
reelection
9.
What did the 21st amendment end, giving the government a new source of income through an excise tax?
a)
prohibition
b)
icome taxes
c)
women's right to vote
d)
WWI
10.
When was the New Deal?
a)
1776-1791
b)
1820-1860
c)
1900-1920
d)
1933-1945
11.
What New Deal program was an answer to demands for a pension for the elderly as put forward by Dr. Francis Townsend?
a)
National Labor Relations
b)
Tennessee Valley Authority
c)
Works {rogress Administration
d)
Social Security
12.
What New Deal law/agency created controversy by putting the government into direct competition with private industry?
a)
the Agricultural Adjustment Act
b)
the National Industrial Recovvery Act
c)
the Tennessee Valley Authority
d)
the Wagner Act
13.
What was a guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies?
a)
Pro-business tax breaks would solve the problems associated with urban poverty
b)
Antitrust legislation would destroy the free market economy of the United States
c)
Rugged individualism must be allowed to solve social inequality
d)
Government must assume more responsibility for helping the poor
14.
During the 1930s, the conditions shown in this photograph occurred mainly
a)
on the Atlantic Coast
b)
on the Great Plains
c)
in the Rocky Mountains
d)
in the Pacific Northwest
15.
The TVA helped transform the Tennessee River Valley from poverty to productivity by ...
a)
soil conservation and tree planting
b)
building highways, bridges, public buildings, public parks, and airports
c)
building hydroelectric dams throughout a seven-state region to control floods and generate electricity
d)
provide assistance to farmers
16.
"Black Tuesday" are words that describe one of the main causes of the Great Depression. "Black Tuesday" refers to ...
a)
the Stock Market Crash of 1929
b)
the Dust Bowl
c)
Soup Kitchens
d)
the Presidential Election
17.
During the Great Depression, many companies went out of business and huge numbers of people lost their jobs. At its peak, 1 out of every 4 people was ___________________.
a)
employed
b)
unemployed
c)
skilled
d)
unskilled
18.
People who lost their homes often lived in makeshift homes made out of cardboard or whatever they could find. These were called shanty towns or ...
a)
Hoover neighborhoods
b)
Hoover streets
c)
Hoovervilles
d)
Hoover wagons
19.
Democrat ____________________ became president in March of 1933, and promised a "New Deal for the American people."
a)
Herbert Hoover
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Lyndon B. Johnson
d)
Ronald Reagan
20.
The New Deal pulled America out of its economic mess! Several New Deal agencies, such as the CCC, WPA, and the TVA, were important because ____________________.
a)
they built bridges, dams, and other useful projects
b)
they helped create jobs and put Americans back to work
c)
they offered assistance to farmers
d)
they provided electricity to a poor region
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