WorksheetsGreat Depression
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
During the Great Depression, many people did lose their homes because they couldn't pay for them. They had to live in makeshift "houses" made out of cardboard or whatever supplies they could find. These were called what?
Hoovervilles
Neighborhoods
Hoover Wagons
Homeless villages
The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a "New Deal" was _________________.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
What did the Social Security Act of the New Deal Program do?
It gave young unemployed people jobs building parks and planting trees.
It restored trust in the banking system by promising Americans their money was safe in the bank.
It gave paychecks to elderly, retired, disabled, and people laid off from their jobs.
It helped with trading and stopped hard investments that led to the stock market crash.
How did the failure of the banking systems effect the American people during the Great Depression?
Banks eventually ran out of money, and people's life savings were gone.
Banks made loans throughout the Great Depression, helping people pays bills until they could find work.
Banks were able to take people's money and keep it safe, but they could not loan out any more money.
Banks were not at all involved in the Great Depression because people did not use them.
The place where stocks and bonds are traded and sold everyday. This is ownership in a company.
Money spending
New Deal
Money trading
Stock Market
Charities that provided bread and soup to homeless and jobless people during the Depression were called _______?
Salvation Army
Soup and Salad Bowls
Soup Kitchens
Goodwill
What event did America take part in beginning in 1941 that ended the Great Depression?
WWI
Great Depression 2.0
The Election of 1940
WWII
A time in America following the roaring 20's where America experienced rising unemployment that did not end until the beginning of World War II.
New Deal
Roaring 20's
Great Depression
Cold War
Gave Women the right to vote
13th amendment
22nd amendment
19th amendment
1st amendment
Money received on a regular basis (paycheck) for going to work and doing your job.
Values
Taxes
Income
Cost
22nd Amendment
Ends Slavery
Allows president to serve 2 terms
Limits a work day to only 8 hours
Women's Rights
