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WorksheetsJDH The Great Depression
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 12mins
. The total value of goods and services for a country in one year is known as?
Gross National Product
Bull Market
Bear Market
Prime Meridian
A downward trend of stock prices is known as?
Gross National Product
Bear market
Bull Market
Prime Meridian
A deep economical downturn during the 1930’s
The Great Depression
The Stock Market Crash
Bonus Army March
WWII
An Upward trend in the Stock Market?
Great Depression
Stock Market Crash
Bear Market
Bull Market
Herbert Hoover’s idea that success can only be achieved by individual effort is
Keynes Economics
Rugged Individualism
New Deal
Social Secruity
What was the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s political plans and relief programs to get us of the Depression?
New Deal
Rugged Individualism
Keynes Economics
Fair Deal
The idea that in order to get money to begin to circulate the economy the government must help by creating government jobs is known as?
Keynes Economics
Rugged Individualism
New Deal
Bank Holiday
He was the president of the United States from 1932 – 1945
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Warren G. Harding.
He was the President of the United States that led us into the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Harry S. Truman
Midwest farmers, due to dust storms and the depression, were forced to leave their farms and move further west were known as?
Okies
49ers
Bonus Army
Hoovervilles
They were the group of WWI veterans that protested outside the White House asking for early release of their war pensions to help with personal finances? Unlike Herbert Hoover who sent in the army to get rid of the protesters, FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt visited the group and supplied them with blankets, tents and food to help. This group is better known as?
Okies
49ers
Bonus Army
Keynes Economics
Stocks that are bought on borrowed money are known as?
Buying on margin
Credit Cards
Loan Act of 1932
New Deal
The regular ups and downs of business is known as:
Business Cycle
Cost and Demand
Supply and Demand
Keynes Economics
What year did the Stock Market Crash?
1928
1929
1932
1939
Who was President when the Hoover Dam was completed?
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
Which President set minimum wages to help aid with relief with the Depression?
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Over farming with added years of a sever drought in the mid plain led to
Drought
Stock Market Crash
Dust Bowls
The Great Depression
Supply and demand: What would make the price of a product increase?
Because the supply has increased and the demand has decreased
Because the supply of that product has decreased and the demand has increased
Because it is a sign that the business is going bankrupt
Because stocks dropped
Supply and demand: If the demand increases for the newest pair of shoes then what happens to the supply of those shoes?
It goes up
It goes down
It stays the same
There is a newer style of shoe on the market
What was or were the goals of FDR’s New Deal?
Ease the plight of all citizens
Get the unemployed to find jobs
To relieve pressure on banks by giving out loans
To have citizens get themselves out of the Depression
What Amendment ended prohibition in the United States?
18th
19th
20th
21st
What did FDR try to do that upset the Supreme Court?
Added Justices to the Supreme Court
Removed the Chief Justice
Added more Democrats to Congress
Created to many new laws
What was the first thing FDR did after taking office?
Called for a Bank Holiday
Passed Minimum Wage Bill
Started Welfare Programs
Gave the Bonus Army its retirement money early
Who said, “Prosperity is right around the corner”.
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Harry S. Truman
A collection of wood, cardboard and makeshift shelters that became communities around some of the Nation’s largest cities during the 30’s were nicknamed?
Ghettos
Slums
Hoovervilles
Dust Bowls
What event started the Great Depression?
Uneven distribution of wealth
Farm prices dropping
Stock Market Crash
Buying on Credit
What event is most likely thought to end the Great Depression of the 1930s by increasing production and demand for workers?
WWII
FDR's New Deal
Social Security
Kenes Economics
Which of the following was NOT one of the theories as to why the Great Depression happened?
Buying on Margin
Uneven Distibution of Wealth
Stock Market Crash
No Welfare programs available
Poor Business Management
What type of economy does our country run on
Capitalistic
Command Economy
Barter System
Supply and Demand
Who said, " there will be a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Keynes
Huey Long
Herbert Hoover
