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Gr4 U4L5 California's 20th Century Role

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What event caused the good times of the 1920's to come to an end?

a)

severe drought

b)

Dust Bowl

c)

stock market failed

d)

World War II

2.

What is a stock market?

a)

A place to buy and sell share of companies

b)

a market to stock up on goods

c)

a market to stock your rations

d)

a place to store stocks

3.

The failure of the stock market caused the beginning of what?

a)

the recession

b)

The Great Recession

c)

the Great Depression

d)

the depression

4.

As a result of the Great Depression many people lost what? Select all that apply

a)

jobs

b)

honor

c)

savings

d)

respect

e)

homes/farms

5.

Many people blamed the Great Depression and lack of jobs on what or who?

a)

immigrants

b)

emigrants

c)

Mexicans

d)

Asians

6.

What event caused many people to come to California?

a)

wanted to see California

b)

wanted to see Disneyland

c)

lack of jobs

d)

sever drought

7.

A sever drought caused a Dust Bowl in parts of what states?

a)

Co, Ky, NM, Oh, Tn

b)

Co, Ks, NM, Ok, Tx

c)

Ca, Ky, NM, Or, Tn

d)

Ct, Ks, NM, Ok, Tx

8.

People who left because of the Dust Bowl came to California, BUT only found jobs doing this?

a)

working in the car industry

b)

working in Hollywood

c)

migrant worker

d)

working in the oil fields

9.

What caused the Great Depression to end?

a)

WWi

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Revolution

d)

WWII

10.

What did the government do to create new jobs?

a)

spend lots of money on supplies

b)

created new jobs

c)

entered the war

d)

None of the above

11.

Hundreds of thousands of people came to California for jobs. What problem did this create?

a)

population boom

b)

hardships

c)

Neither A nor B

d)

Both A and B

12.

The problems in California led to what?

a)

meat / coffee

b)

butter / sugar

c)

prices / gas

d)

inflation / rationing

13.

Who went to work in factories?

a)

Men

b)

Women

c)

Children / school children

d)

None of the Above

e)

All of the Above

14.

Many people were fearful of Japanese and Japanese/Americans. What made them so fearful?

a)

Japanese people lived in California

b)

Japanese planes bombed Pear Harbor

c)

Japanese people helped bomb Pearl Harbor

d)

None of the above

15.

What did the U.S. do with all these Japanese and Japanese Americans?

a)

moved them to internment camps

b)

put them in prison

c)

asked more of them to come

d)

moved them away from the coast