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WorksheetsCFA UNIT 4 ASSESSMENT (The Great Depression, New Deal, 1930)
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Read the quotation below.
“I pledge to you, I pledge to myself, to a new deal for the American people.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, accepting the Democratic Party nomination for president, 1932
1. What was one-way President Franklin D. Roosevelt worked to accomplish this promise?
by asking Congress to end poll taxes
by authorizing food rationing during World War II
by establishing the Works Progress Administration
by freezing wages after the U.S. stock market crash
Read the list below.
President Franklin Roosevelt’s Goals for the New Deal
• relief for the needy
• economic recovery
• bank reform
Which actions by President Roosevelt during the Great Depression MOST helped meet the goals
listed above? Choose TWO responses. (Counts as two questions)
He created dams that provided electricity.
He reorganized the executive branch of government.
He delivered regular speeches to the public on the radio.
He created a program to build public buildings and highways.
He promised to fight the economic problem as if it were a war.
The Great Depression that began in 1929 hit farmers especially hard with several years of severe
drought turning the land into a “dust bowl.” What was an immediate result of this?
The government built large dams in the West for irrigation.
Many farmers and their families lost their farms and moved west.
The government helped farmers by buying their land and equipment.
Many farmers decided to grow crops that did not use as much water.
This author wrote Gone with the Wind, which was a book about a Georgia family overcoming
hardships after the Civil War.
Jesse Owens
Duke Ellington
Charles Lindbergh
Margaret Mitchell
5. Who was the president when the Stock Market Crashed in 1929?
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Warren Harding
Franklin Roosevelt
6. President Roosevelt planned on fixing the economy through which of the following?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Recovery, Reform, Resilience
Reform, Resilience, Rationing
Relief, Restructure, Reasoning
As a way of helping out of work Americans, social organizations and charities began to set up:
Cattle Trails
Soup Kitchens
Bread Stations
Farmer’s Markets
Duke Ellington was famous during the 1930s for being:
A bestselling author
An Olympic track star
A composer of jazz music
An all-star baseball player
Which New Deal program, which hired artists and musicians, would the following poster represent?
A. Social Security Act
B. Tennessee Valley Authority
C. Civilian Conservation Corps
D. Works Progress Administration
Social Security Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Civilian Conservation Corps
Works Progress Administration
This program provided jobs to young me, who would work planting trees, building state and national parks, and built rural roadways. Most of the money earned was sent back home.
CCC
WPA
TVA
MPS
This program employed people to build dams in the rural south in order to help provide electricity to the surrounding areas.
TVA
MPS
CCC
WPA
This program hired millions to construct roads, buildings, and also hired people in the ares (musicians, artists, actors) to entertain people.
TVA
MPS
CCC
WPA
The shaded area shown on the map above is an area of abundant farmland. During the 1930s this
area suffered major crop failures. What was a major cause of this long-lasting failure?
A severe drought
Heavy winter snowfall
Late freezing temperatures
Farmers refusing to use irrigation to water crops
14. President Hoover believed that at the beginning of the Great Depression that the Federal
Government should try and help which group?
Unemployed citizens
World War I veterans
Struggling businesses
Only citizens in rural areas
Which is an easy way for people to own part of a large company?
to purchase shares of a company’s stock
to purchase the products a company makes
to purchase a company’s certificate of deposit
to purchase the company’s factories and warehouses
One of the causes of the Great Depression was the loss of farms in the Dust Bowl region. How did
the Dust Bowl effect banks?
Banks were unable to purchase crops from local farmers to feed their workers.
Farmers could no longer pay back money borrowed from banks, causing banks to close.
Farmers deposited all their money into banks in order to make money from the interest.
Banks began to only lend money to local miners, who were unaffected by the Dust Bowl.
Fontana Dam in North Carolina was built as part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal. What was the
main purpose in building this dam?
to provide electricity to the rural South
to hold water in case of a severe drought
to create additional farmland in the east to crow crops
to use the lake to raise fish to help feed the surrounding area.
In 1936 Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the Olympics in Germany. His winning gave many
Americans the feeling of:
Pride
Relief
Confusion
Understanding
During the Great Depression, some people who had lost their homes to bankruptcy, lived in small
shacks built from scrap materials. Small towns of these shacks were often called Hoovervilles. Why did
people call them Hoovervilles?
Many of the shacks were built near the Hoover Dam.
Many people blamed President Hoover for the Depression.
President Hoover ordered the shacks to be built to house the homeless.
Scrapes of wood and metal used to build the shacks were supplied by one of President Hoover’s
committees.
Under President Theodore Roosevelt, the United States expanded its role in the world by doing which of the
following?
Building the Panama Canal, making access from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean much quicker.
Invaded several small Caribbean Island nations to expand the United States’ power in the area.
Declaring war on Russia in order to gain ownership of Alaska and all of the natural resources located there.
Defeated Spain, which was attempting to gain control of several Latin American countries in order to explore for
gold.
22. In 1915 a German U-boat sank the British ocean liner Lusitania which resulted in the killing of 1,200 passengers
including 120 Americans. What was the long-term result of this attack?
Germany was able to completely prevent trade between the United States and England.
England realized that fighting against U-boats was useless and surrendered to Germany.
France threatened to join the war against Germany unless they signed the Treaty of Versailles.
The United States warned Germany to stop attacking ships and after they refused, the United States joined the war
against Germany.
Which process made it possible to speed up the manufacturing of an automobile along the
assembly line?
Specialization
Price Incentives
Opportunity costs
Voluntary Exchange
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The development of faster transportation from the U.S. to Europe.
A major population shift from the Midwest into Harlem, New York.
An artistic focus on the hardships and accomplishments of African Americans.
The focus on scientific and technological growth which began in Harlem, New York.
In which two ways did the United States contribute to World War I? (Choose two answers).
They allowed German U-boats to make repairs in U.S. ports.
They sent food and supplies to the British and French armies.
They sent over U.S. troops and ships to help support the allies.
They sent Germany farm equipment so that they could plant wheat.
They sent tanks and other military equipment to Germany and England.
-Expert on voice and speech
-Worked with the deaf
-Invented a device which allowed Americans to communicate instantly
Who is described by the information above?
Thomas Edison
Wright Brothers
Alexander Graham Bell
George Washington Carver
