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WorksheetsThe Great Depression
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a boom as discussed in our Social Studies text?
a)
a loud noise
b)
a period of fast economic growth
c)
a period of fast crop growth
2.
Mass production was used in the 1920's to make automobiles. What is one effect from this?
a)
Cars became cheaper and easier to purchase.
b)
Cars became very expensive.
c)
Cars became only for the wealthy.
3.
What is a stock?
a)
A job at a company.
b)
A share of ownership in a company.
c)
When a company fires you.
4.
What is mass production?
a)
Making identical products at once.
b)
Producing several products at the same time.
c)
Making products slowly.
5.
What is an assembly line?
a)
A line of workers and equipment that puts a product together piece by piece.
b)
One worker making one product start to finish.
c)
Workers making lines.
6.
What is minimum wage?
a)
Getting paid higher than another person in your company.
b)
The highest salary.
c)
The least amount a worker in most types of jobs can legally be paid.
7.
What is debt?
a)
Money you give to someone.
b)
Money that one person owes another.
c)
Money that a job pays you.
8.
What was the effect of WWI on the economy?
a)
The economy stopped.
b)
The economy went through a depression.
c)
The economy went through a boom.
9.
What three presidents encouraged economic growth in the 1920's?
a)
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
b)
Lincoln, Johnson, Grant
c)
Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
10.
What did the 19th Amendment do?
a)
Allowed citizens to vote for senators.
b)
Gave women the right to vote.
c)
Gave African American men the right to vote.
11.
A period when a neighborhood in New York became a center a for African American musicians, writers and artists.
a)
Jazz Renaissance
b)
Music Age
c)
Harlem Renaissance
12.
Louis Armstrong was a famous what?
a)
artist
b)
singer/trumpeter
c)
poet
13.
Langston Hughes was a famous what?
a)
Poet
b)
Trombone player
c)
actor
14.
Duke Ellington was a famous?
a)
Artist
b)
musical composer
c)
drummer
15.
Georgia Douglas Johnson was who?
a)
African American piano player
b)
African American teacher/poet
c)
African American doctor
16.
What event put an end to the prosperity of the 1920's?
a)
Black Friday
b)
Black Sunday
c)
Black Tuesday
17.
The Great Depression was know as a period of_____________ and _______________.
a)
sadness, happiness
b)
happiness, prosperity
c)
unemployment, hardships
18.
Which one of these were a cause of the Great Depression?
a)
FDR becoming president
b)
Growth in stocks
c)
Farmers were in debt
19.
Banks went out of business which slowed the economy this started what?
a)
The Great Depression
b)
Harlem Renaissance
c)
Economic Boom
20.
These 3 reasons listed below created what was know as the _______________.
1.Excessive plowing and grazing
2. Severe Drought
3. Dust Storms
1.Excessive plowing and grazing
2. Severe Drought
3. Dust Storms
a)
Sugar Bowl
b)
Dust Bowl
c)
Wheat Bowl
21.
In the election of 1932 which Presidential candidate wanted to create government programs that would help suffering people?
a)
Taft
b)
Hoover
c)
FDR
22.
Herbert Hoover felt the economy would improve on its own: True or False
a)
True
b)
False
23.
FDR created the Social Security Act. This Act helped Americans by providing funds to the working class.
a)
True
b)
False
24.
FDR created many programs in his New Deal. One of these was the WPA. The Works Progress Administration hired people to build streets, parks, libraries and schools.
a)
True
b)
False
25.
The TVA program created jobs by people building dams on the Trenton River.
a)
True
b)
False
26.
The Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC helps to preserve and protect our natural environment.
a)
True
b)
False
27.
What organization did Elenor Roosevelt, wife of FDR, create?
a)
National Youth Administration
b)
Recreation and Parks
c)
Peace Corp
28.
If a company is successful and makes money what will happen to the value of the stock?
a)
Value falls
b)
Value rises
29.
What did factories produce once WWI ended?
a)
Tanks
b)
Home Appliances
c)
Machine Guns
30.
With the car becoming more affordable people started to move where?
a)
big cities
b)
suburbs
c)
farms
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