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Worksheets(FA) Great Depression
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Using the power of nation-wide television, President Roosevelt talked weekly to the American people.
a)
TRUE
b)
FALSE
2.
During the Great Depression, many families lost their homes and farms.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
When banks failed during the Great Depression, people could still get their money out of their savings accounts.
a)
True
b)
False
4.
During a depression, banks and other businesses do very well.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
When he was elected president in 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had no plans to help the country get out of the Great Depression.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
This was a shanty town built by homeless people in the US during the Great Depression.
a)
Hooverville
b)
Hoover Hog
c)
Hoover Blanket
d)
Hoover City
7.
These creatures included squirrels, jackrabbits and, most famously, armadillos.
a)
Hoovervilles
b)
Hoover Hogs
c)
Hoover Flags
d)
Hoover Blankets
8.
The newspapers draped over men and women sleeping in the streets.
a)
Hoovervilles
b)
Hoover Hogs
c)
Hoover Blankets
d)
Hoover Flags
9.
The president’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was one of the most active first ladies the country had ever known.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
Which was not a contributing cause (reason) for the Great Depression to come to an END.
a)
Roosevelt's New Deal programs were working.
b)
World War 2 was beginning and manufacturing was increasing.
c)
Unemployment (people out of work) was high.
11.
The Stock Market crash in October 1929 was one of the causes of the Great Depression.
a)
True
b)
False
12.
Herbert Hoover was President of the United States at the beginning of the Great Depression, but people did not blame him for the Great Depression.
a)
True
b)
False
13.
The President who was mostly blamed for worsening the Great Depression
a)
Roosevelt
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Hoover
d)
Jefferson
14.
This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest
a)
Tornados
b)
Dust Bowl
c)
Black Tuesday
d)
Hurricanes
15.
Which is not a contributing cause (reason) for the “Dust Bowl” disaster in the Plains states during the 1930’s.
a)
Several years of drought. (no rain)
b)
Farmers had cut down most of the trees to make more farmland
c)
Farmers planted the same crops year after year and those plants could not hold the soil.
d)
There was too much snow over several years
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