WorksheetsGr4 U4L5 California's 20th Century Role
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What event caused the good times of the 1920's to come to an end?
severe drought
Dust Bowl
stock market failed
World War II
What is a stock market?
A place to buy and sell share of companies
a market to stock up on goods
a market to stock your rations
a place to store stocks
The failure of the stock market caused the beginning of what?
the recession
The Great Recession
the Great Depression
the depression
As a result of the Great Depression many people lost what? Select all that apply
jobs
honor
savings
respect
homes/farms
Many people blamed the Great Depression and lack of jobs on what or who?
immigrants
emigrants
Mexicans
Asians
What event caused many people to come to California?
wanted to see California
wanted to see Disneyland
lack of jobs
sever drought
A sever drought caused a Dust Bowl in parts of what states?
Co, Ky, NM, Oh, Tn
Co, Ks, NM, Ok, Tx
Ca, Ky, NM, Or, Tn
Ct, Ks, NM, Ok, Tx
People who left because of the Dust Bowl came to California, BUT only found jobs doing this?
working in the car industry
working in Hollywood
migrant worker
working in the oil fields
What caused the Great Depression to end?
WWi
Pearl Harbor
Revolution
WWII
What did the government do to create new jobs?
spend lots of money on supplies
created new jobs
entered the war
None of the above
Hundreds of thousands of people came to California for jobs. What problem did this create?
population boom
hardships
Neither A nor B
Both A and B
The problems in California led to what?
meat / coffee
butter / sugar
prices / gas
inflation / rationing
Who went to work in factories?
Men
Women
Children / school children
None of the Above
All of the Above
Many people were fearful of Japanese and Japanese/Americans. What made them so fearful?
Japanese people lived in California
Japanese planes bombed Pear Harbor
Japanese people helped bomb Pearl Harbor
None of the above
What did the U.S. do with all these Japanese and Japanese Americans?
moved them to internment camps
put them in prison
asked more of them to come
moved them away from the coast
