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WorksheetsThe Great Depression
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Month and Day that Stock Market Crashed
a)
October 28, 1929
b)
October 29, 1928
c)
October 29, 1929
d)
October 29, 1939
2.
The Great Depression began in
a)
1925
b)
1929
c)
1932
d)
1940
3.
What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?
a)
Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
b)
Unemployment decreased gradually.
c)
Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
d)
Hoover was re-elected as president.
4.
Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Herbert Hoover
5.
What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?
a)
Hoovervilles
b)
Okies
c)
Bonus Army Bases
d)
Rooseveltowns
6.
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Great Depression?
a)
homelessness
b)
bank failures
c)
high tariffs
d)
struggling farmers
7.
What natural disaster of the 1930s added insult to injury?
a)
Flooding along the Mississippi River
b)
The Dust Bowl
c)
Tornadoes called the Helen Hunt Twisters
d)
Hurricanes along the Gulf Coast
8.
What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?
a)
Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
b)
Unemployment decreased gradually.
c)
Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
d)
Hoover was re-elected as president.
9.
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.
10.
Which event occurred on Black Tuesday?
a)
many factories closed
b)
many banks closed
c)
many people lost their homes
d)
the stock market crashed
11.
Hoovervilles were…….
a)
Places where President Hoover had lived
b)
Shanty towns set up by the homeless
12.
What event is generally considered to be the start of the Great Depression
a)
Dust bowl
b)
Stock market crash
c)
New deal
d)
Bonus Army March
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