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WorksheetsWW1-Great Depression REview
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
To increase the variety of products
a)
Assembly Line
b)
Diversify
c)
Truck Farming
d)
New South
2.
Not getting involved in the affairs of other nations
a)
New South
b)
WW1
c)
Isolationism
d)
WW2
3.
Series of stations, workers, machines, and equipment at which people and machines add to, or assemble, the parts of a product.
a)
Assembly Line
b)
Installment Plan
c)
Purchasing Power
d)
New South
4.
Allows consumers to make regular payments for the item purchased over a period of time
a)
Purchasing Power
b)
Installment Plan
c)
Entrepreneur
d)
Boll Weevil
5.
The ability to buy goods and services, usually measured in terms of income
a)
Installment PLan
b)
Purchasing Power
c)
Entrepreneur
d)
New South
6.
Small, grayish , long-snouted beetle that attacked the cotton plant
a)
Roach
b)
Mosquito
c)
Boll Weevil
d)
Ant
7.
Trade or exchange goods or services without the use of money
a)
Purchasing Power
b)
Installment Plan
c)
Barter
d)
Recession
8.
Least amount a person can be paid per hour
a)
Recession
b)
Labor Union
c)
Cooperative
d)
Minimum wage
9.
Economic slowdown
a)
Depression
b)
Repression
c)
Recession
d)
WW1
10.
Grant of money from government
a)
Boll weevil
b)
Entrepreneur
c)
Recession
d)
Subsidy
11.
Program that determined how many of a particular crop that a farmer could grow?
a)
CCC
b)
NIRA
c)
REA
d)
AAA
12.
Worked for better wages, benefits, and working conditions
a)
AAA
b)
NICA
c)
NIRA
d)
CCC
13.
Program that worked to better the environment
a)
PWA
b)
CCC
c)
SAAA
d)
REA
14.
Program that brought electricity to rural areas
a)
REA
b)
AAA
c)
PWA
d)
YPA
15.
Helped Americans receive a retirement pension
a)
Social Security
b)
Eletrification
c)
Health Insurance
d)
Public Works Association
16.
Which of the following is not a goal of the New Deal?
a)
Recover economy
b)
Relief poor and unemployed
c)
Register to vote citizens
d)
PLace permanent reforms to keep same events from happening again
17.
Which president introduced the New Deal
a)
Herbert Hoover
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Franklin Roosevelt
d)
Barack Obama
18.
Two problems with the new Deal
a)
Cost too much and people relied on government
b)
Made more people unemployed
c)
None of the above
d)
All of the above
19.
Who stated relief should come from private agencies, not the government?
a)
Franklin Roosevelt
b)
Herbert Hoover
c)
Eugene Talmadge
d)
Woodrow Wilson
20.
Which of the following is NOT an effect of the New Deal?
a)
Improved transportation
b)
Better farming equipment
c)
No taxes
d)
New varieties of crops
21.
What is the New Deal?
a)
Opportunity to buy new car at low price
b)
A way to purchase new stocks
c)
group of government programs to try and end the Great Depression
d)
A program to prepare people for WW2
22.
What was the dust bowl?
a)
A new fertilizer for crops
b)
When soil turned to dust and high winds created storms
c)
A new sport created in the 20's
d)
A new song released in the 20's
23.
What caused the dust bowl?
a)
Soil erosion
b)
Cattle grazing
c)
Plowing
d)
All of the above
24.
What is Black Sunday?
a)
April 14, 1935, black blizzards occured
b)
April 15, 1935, black blizzards occured
c)
April 13, 1935, the day the sun was covered by clouds
d)
April 15, 1935, the day the sun was covered by clouds
25.
Which of the following is NOT a cause of WW1?
a)
Imperialism
b)
Patriotism
c)
Alliances
d)
Nationalism
26.
Which country sends a telegram to Mexico asking them to join alliances against the United States?
a)
Britain
b)
Germany
c)
Japan
d)
Russia
27.
What was the name of the man who sent the telegram?
a)
Arthur Zimmermann
b)
Alfredo Zimmermann
c)
Albert Zimmermann
d)
Alfonso Zimmermann
28.
Which countries were NOT involved in the Allies Powers?
a)
Russia
b)
USA
c)
Germany
d)
Great Britain
29.
Which countries were involved in the central powers?
a)
Germany and Austria-Hungary
b)
Germany and Japan
c)
Germany and Mexico
d)
Austria-Hungary and Japan
30.
What was the name of the ship that was sank? 128 Americans were killed.
a)
Lusitania
b)
Louisiana
c)
Burton
d)
Lacey
31.
What day did the U.S. declare war on Germany?
a)
April 4, 1917
b)
April 14, 1917
c)
April 4, 1919
d)
April 14, 1919
32.
Who was the President when WW1 started?
a)
Herbert Hoover
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Franklin Roosevelt
d)
Ronald Reagan
33.
Name two forms of weapons that were made an appearance in WW1.
a)
Machine guns and poison gas
b)
Machine guns and sling shots
c)
Poison Gas and sling shots
d)
Machine guns and bombs
34.
In 1918, what did Wilson propose that stop the fighting and began to resolve issues?
a)
Treaty of Versailles
b)
League of Nations
c)
League of Allies
d)
None of the above
35.
Which of the following does NOT describe how farmers diversified their crops?
a)
Crop rotation
b)
fertilizers
c)
Burned fields
36.
Name 2 things that caused cotton to fail.
a)
Drought and Boll weevil
b)
Fire and drought
c)
Boll weevil and high winds
d)
none of the above
37.
What percentage of Georgians worked in the textile mills?
a)
10%
b)
15%
c)
20%
d)
25%
38.
What is a stock market?
a)
Where shares of ownership are kept
b)
lottery
c)
a place where you sale food
d)
none of the above
39.
What date did the stock market crash?
a)
November 12, 1929
b)
October 29, 1929
c)
October 19, 1929
d)
October 15, 1929
40.
What does it mean by “the stock market crashed?”
a)
The building fell to the ground
b)
The building burned
c)
Stocks lost their values
d)
None of the above
41.
What percentage of population was unemployed?
a)
15%
b)
20%
c)
25%
d)
50%
42.
Homeless people were living where ever they could find: shelters, abandoned buildings, etc.
a)
True
b)
False
43.
What is hooverville?
a)
Where president Hoover lived
b)
A mansion
c)
A village of shelters full of homeless people
d)
Supporters of Herbert hoover
44.
Approximately what years did the Great depression take place (10 years long)?
a)
1919-1929
b)
1929-1939
c)
1939-1949
d)
1949-1959
45.
Which of the following did NOT feed the hungry?
a)
Salvation Army
b)
Churches
c)
Soup Kitchens
d)
Eugene Talmadge
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