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WorksheetsThe Great Depression
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 2mins
What was the Great Depression?
It was when America was the richest country in the world.
It was when American's companies made to many products for the citizens and the Stock Market Crash happened.
It was when America's government kept all the money to themselves.
It was when the countries that traded with America lost some of the items that were traded.
When did the Stock Market Crash take place?
Black Tuesday, October 29th, 1929
Black Tuesday, October 22nd, 1929
Black Wednesday, October 30th, 1929
Black Friday, October 25th, 1929
Who were the important leaders during this time?
Hebert Hoover
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
What events occurred during this time?
The Dust Bowl
America was one of the poorest countries.
All over the world except America was in a war.
Unemployed people went to eat at Soup Kitchens.
How did the Great Depression end?
Every body just decided to stop suffering and buy the products they already had and didn't need anymore.
President Franklin Roosevelt created corporations that helped people to get jobs, so everybody had a job again.
The president gave them everything they needed, so they no longer needed money.
World War 2 began all around the world.
How did the Great Depression affect the millions of lives of Americans?
Americans lost their jobs.
Americans could not provide for their families.
The poor became poorer, the regular became poor, the rich became poor and regular.
Everyone affected by it got a lot of money during this time, but the people who weren't affected lost all of their money.
What was the job of the CCC?
They elected the next president.
They cleaned up the forests, planted trees, and maintained the amount of predatory animals.
They invented new things using objects from the forest.
They threw out their garbage in the forests for the animals to eat.
What was the job of the TVA?
They invented TV's and installed in people's homes.
They caught up the rest of the country with the Tennessee Valley.
They helped the Tennessee Valley by building dams, installing electricity, helped the number of people who got diseases lower, and help them catch up with the rest of America.
They created names for new corporations all over the country.
What was the job of the WPA?
They built parks, bridges, roads, schools, courthouses, hospitals, museums, swimming pools, and city halls.
They give money to the poor and unemployed that they saw.
They worked in soup kitchens.
They rode around in their cars and gave people rides.
What were soup kitchens?
They were cities who gave out soup to random people.
They were places that gave soup and bread to the unemployed.
They were kitchens in people's homes that provided bread.
They were schools that provided food to the employed because they were proud of them.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
He was the president that saved America from the Great Depression.
He was the person who invented the New Deal.
He was the president America blamed on the Great Depression.
He was the person that everybody went to to get their money back.
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
He was the person everybody blamed on the Great Depression.
He was the president that was elected who got America out of the Great Depression.
He was the person who closed down the banks in the first place.
He was the president that was elected to invent soup kitchens.
What was the Dust Bowl?
It was a tradition where you had to get a bowl and fill it with sand.
It was a natural disaster in the Midwest that killed plants that held the soil together and swirled dust into the air that made everybody cough.
It was when the ocean lost most of its animals.
It was a wind in the North that pulled dust into the drinking water.
What was the New Deal?
It was a program that allowed Americans to add rules to the Constitution whenever they liked.
It was an idea that Americans had that let the president change their particular lives all the time.
It was a program set up to help America get out of the Great Depression and helped people to get jobs to provide for the families.
It was a program that was targeted towards letting the people of America do whatever they wanted whenever they wanted.
