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Great Depression

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 51mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Represents shares of ownership in a company.
a)
stock
b)
portfolio
c)
volume
d)
industry
2.
Define Black Tuesday
a)
Group of government programs created to try and end the Great Depression.
b)
October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed. It was the official start of the Great Depression
c)
Minimal improvement in economy. FDR urged congress to pass additional programs.
3.
Ownership in shares of a company or corporation
a)
CEO
b)
Insurance
c)
Stocks
4.
Which of the following European country faced the greatest economic challenges after WW I? 
a)
Austria
b)
Great Britian
c)
France
d)
Germany
5.
When did the Stock Market crash?
a)
October 31, 1929
b)
September 29, 1931
c)
August 29, 1991
d)
October 29, 1929
6.
What is another name for the Stock Market Crash?
a)
Black Friday
b)
Taco Tuesday
c)
Black Tuesday
d)
Throwback Thursday
7.
Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed and Depression began?
a)
Theodore Roosevelt
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Herbert Hoover
d)
William McKinley
8.
Who was elected president because he had a plan to pull America out of the Great Depression?
a)
William McKinley
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
9.
What was the name of FDR's plan to reconstruct America following the Great Depression?
a)
No Deal
b)
New Deal
c)
Reconstruction
d)
FDR's Plan
10.
During the Great Depression, there was a severe drought in the Great Plains. Strong prairie winds picked up the topsoil and spread dust everywhere. Many farm families packed everything up and moved west. What was this event called?
a)
Dust Bowl
b)
Salad Bowl
c)
Great Plains Panic
d)
Depressing Dust
11.
What were the 3 main programs President Roosevelt established to help reconstruct the U.S. economy?
a)
WPA, CCC, TAV
b)
CCC, TVA, WPA
c)
WAP, COP, WWW
d)
TVA, WPA, UGA
12.
Which New Deal program gave jobs to young men between the ages of 18-25? The employees built roads, planted forests, and worked on irrigation and national park projects.
a)
CCC
b)
UGA
c)
WPA
d)
TVA
13.
Which New Deal program had workers build roads, parks, bridges, airports, and buildings? This program also hired artists to paint murals and build sculptures.
a)
CCC
b)
WWW
c)
WPA
d)
TVA
14.
Which New Deal program helped to build dams to control flooding and provide electricity throughout 7 states?
a)
TVA
b)
COP
c)
COM
d)
WPA
15.
People who could no longer afford their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they built in public parks. What were these shacks called?
a)
Shantyshacks
b)
Town Homes
c)
Tenement Housing
d)
Hoovervilles
16.
A place where stocks are bought and sold. If a com pany needs to raise money, it often sells stocks, or shares of the company, to inves tors called stockholders.
a)
Hoovervilles
b)
credit
c)
stock market
d)
Dust Bowl
17.
One reason why the crash had caused panic among investors was that many of them had bought their stocks on 
a)
credit/loans
b)
food
c)
trades
d)
none
18.
A period of economic hardships in the United States and people lost jobs, money, homes, etc
a)
Roaring 20s
b)
World War 1
c)
Great Depression
d)
Industrial Revolution
19.
Who was the President that formed the New Deal?
a)
George Bush
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Barack Obama
20.
New Deal programs such as __________ are still in affect today.
a)
Social Security
b)
unemployment
c)
Hoovervilles
d)
speakeasies
21.
 A long period without rainfall hit the Great Plains in the 1930s.
a)
drought
b)
credit
c)
mud
d)
Dust Bowl
22.

What percentage of people were unemployed in 1932?

a)

50%

b)

35%

c)

25%

d)

75%

23.

What practice, which was not used by Farmers, may have prevented the Dust Bowl?

a)

John Deere Tractor plowing

b)

crop rotation

c)

moving away

24.

Which New Deal Program protected bank deposits from being lost if the bank failed?

a)

FDIC

b)

CCC

c)

FERA

d)

WPA

25.

This event in Europe quickly put Americans back to work in the factories and pulled the U.S. out of the depression.

a)

World War I

b)

World War II

c)

World War III

d)

European Civil War

26.

Social Security, Federal Work Programs, Environmental improvement programs, and increased rights for labor were--

a)

Major features of the New Deal

b)

The New Deal programs that didn't work

c)

Helped people have faith in the banks again

d)

None of the above

27.

This New Deal program encouraged farmers to only grow certain crops and in less amounts. It also provided low interest loans to farmers.

a)

AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act

b)

FERA Farmers Endurance Raising Act

c)

FDIC Farmers Dairy Incorporation Company Act

28.

This New Deal Program put people back to work building bridges, parks, landing strips for airplanes, schools and libraries. It also provided work for artists.

a)

PAW

b)

WPA

c)

CCC

d)

TVA

29.

This New Deal Program cleaned sandbars from the rivers so that farmers could easily ship their products to market. Also, it helped to build hydroelectric dams to allow electricity into the more rural areas.

a)

RVA

b)

TVA

c)

ATT

d)

NRA

30.

This act established a new tax that would help retired people have income (pension) when they got older. Employees and employers paid this tax.

a)

Income Tax Act

b)

Sales Tax Act

c)

Personal Property Tax Act

d)

Social Security Act

31.

Causes of the Great Depression

a)

People over-speculated on stocks

b)

The Federal Reserve didn't help to prevent the collapse of the banking system

c)

High tariffs had discouraged international trade.

d)

All of the above

32.

How were Americans impacted by the Great Depression?

a)

Many banks failed and people lost their money

b)

Large numbers of people were homeless and hungry

c)

Farmers' incomes fell to low levels

d)

All of the above

33.

A time when industries do not grow and many people are out of work.

a)

Recession

b)

Depression

c)

Stock market crash

d)

None of the above

34.

President Hoover wanted a balanced budget in America. What was that?

a)

When you don't spend more than you make.

b)

When you make a lot and spend a lot

c)

When the government spends more money on defense

d)

None of the above

35.

A person who buys stock in a business in hopes that it will make a profit.

a)

investor

b)

depositor

c)

flapper

d)

None of the above

36.

Making more products that can be purchased.

a)

overproduction

b)

underproduction

c)

mass production

d)

assembly production

37.

Changing crops each growing season to add nutrients to the soil and prevent it from losing all nutrients.

a)

crop rotation

b)

science farming AcT

c)

blue grass AcT

d)

Stop Growing Wheat Act

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