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Great Depression Vocabulary

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is what sparked the Great Depression

a)

WWI veterans who wanted early military bonus

b)

Name given to Great Plains because of severe drought

c)

Strike where workers/people stay and refuse to leave

d)

Stock market crashed(Black Tuesday)

2.

Author who wrote The Grapes of Wrath which showed life during

Depression

a)

Mary M. Bethune

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Woody Guthrie

d)

John Steinbeck

3.

Great Depression-

a)

Stock market crashed

b)

Long economic crisis that took place during the 1930s

c)

Financial aid to the elderly, disabled, children, and the unemployed

d)

Roosevelt’s plan to help economic recovery

4.

Radio address by Roosevelt

a)

Speculation

b)

Great Depression Radio

c)

Fireside Chats

d)

Bonfire Discussions

5.

Name given to Great Plains because of severe drought

a)

Dust Bowl

b)

Investor

c)

Black Tuesday

d)

Bonus Army

6.

Eleanor Roosevelt-

a)

Secretary of Labor and first woman cabinet member

b)

First Lady/Wife of FDR and supported New Deal Programs

c)

(D) Elected President in 1932

d)

Popular folk singer songs reflected the struggles of the time

7.

Financial aid to the elderly, disabled, children, and the unemployed

a)

Tennessee Valley Authority

b)

Social Security Act

c)

Congress of Industrial Organization

d)

New Deal

8.

Roosevelt’s plan to help economic recovery

a)

Great Depression

b)

Treaty of Versailles

c)

New Deal

d)

4 Day Bank Holiday

9.

Someone who buys stocks

a)

Speculator

b)

Investor

c)

Woody Guthrie

d)

Carpetbagger

10.

Franklin D. Roosevelt(FDR)

a)

(D) Elected President in 1932

b)

Secretary of Labor and first woman cabinet member

c)

Author who wrote The Grapes of Wrath which showed life during

Depression

d)

African American woman educator to be appointed to Roosevelt’s

Administration

11.

What are the three(3) reasons for the Great Depression?

a)

Farmers' income levels were low

b)

People overspeculated on stocks, using borrowed money that they could not repay

c)

Banks and Businesses Failed

d)

High tariffs discouraged international trade.

e)

The Federal Reserve system failed to prevent the collapse of a banking system

12.

A majority of people during the Great Depression were ____ and _____.

a)

rich and poor

b)

rich and wealthy

c)

hungry and homeless

d)

happy and contnet

13.

President at the beginning of the Great Depression?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

Calvin Coolidge

14.

October 29, 1929 was called?

a)

Black Tuesday

b)

Depressed Wednesday

c)

Stock Sunday

d)

Terrible Tuesday

15.

The up and down pattern in an economic system

a)

stock pattern

b)

investment

c)

business cycle

d)

depression

16.

To put in place

a)

organize

b)

implement

c)

Depress

d)

buying on margin

17.

Hired people to build dams and generators to bring electricity/jobs to TN River Valley 

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

Tennessee Valley Authority

c)

New Deal

d)

John Steinbeck

18.

Strike where workers refuse to leave

a)

Homestead Strike

b)

Pullman strike

c)

Sit Down Strike

d)

Refusal Strike

19.

Labor union that placed workers in unions based on industry they worked

a)

Labor Union

b)

Congress of Industrial Organizations

c)

FDIC

d)

Federal Reserve