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The 1930s

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

which are 5 causes of the great depresssion

a)

Unemployment, credit, agriculture, industry, and stock market

b)

Speakeasy, dust bowl, Hoover, boredom, and WWII

c)

No one had money

d)

Factories

2.

true or false farmers had to break milk bottles because overproduction

a)

True

b)

False

3.

What were 2 conditions of farmers

a)

Had to sell land, and dust bowl

b)

government didn’t want farmers

c)

Machines took over jobs, people wanted to work in factories

4.

whaT were Hoover’s actions during early depression

a)

He made the government pay more money to help out

b)

He made his wife handle everything

c)

Influenced churches to donate money

d)

He made more jobs

5.

What was the bonus army?

a)

A group of protestors

b)

WWI veterans coming to collected the money they were promised

c)

Veterans marching for equal rights

d)

Mothers and children coming to D.C to beg for money

6.

Why did the Bonus army come to the D.C

a)

To beg for food

b)

To asks for jobs

c)

They came to go to work

d)

They came to collected the money they were promised

7.

When was the Bonus army’s money due by?

a)

1934

b)

1944

c)

1945

d)

1940

8.

What happened while the Bonus army was at D.C

a)

Hoover sent is troops to forcefully evict the veterans

b)

Hoover gave them the money

c)

FDR stepped in and joined them

d)

Nothing happened

9.

Who the general leading the eviction of the Bonus Army

a)

Francis townsand

b)

dugless

c)

FDR

d)

Hoover

10.

What were Roosevelts 100 days spent on

a)

Bank holidays, fire chats, and making jobs

b)

Social reform

c)

nothing

d)

Building the wall

11.

True or false; fire chats were a way for FDR to communicate with the public

a)

True

b)

False

12.

What was a bank holiday

a)

A holiday to celebrate banks for there hard work

b)

A day when banks would close so the government could check to make sure there checks were good

13.

What was the new deal

a)

Series of programs to help get people back in work

b)

Social security act

c)

Focus on work war 2

d)

Works on the businesses of America

14.

What was the 2 new deal

a)

The same as the first one

b)

Worked on keeping society healthy

c)

Worked on social reforms

d)

Helped farmers get back to there old ways

15.

What did the 2 new deal lead to

a)

WPA

b)

RRR

c)

CCC

d)

Social security act

16.

which one these was a common criticism of the new deal

a)

It was great no one hated it

b)

People thought the new deal was a form of socialism

c)

People thought it was a form of communism

d)

Veterans

17.

True or false: Francis townsand was a criticism-er of the new deal

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Who were people who did not like the new deal

a)

Wealthy and private business

b)

Just wealthy people

c)

All people

19.

how did Eleanor Contribute

a)

She would go out and talk to people for Roosevelt

b)

She didnt do anything

c)

She criticized his work

d)

She would drop everything including making orders

20.

what did they consider Eleanor Roosevelt to be

a)

Roosevelt’s eyes and ears

b)

Nothing

c)

A stay at home wife

21.

True or false Roosevelt had polio

a)

True

b)

False

22.

What made the dust bowl so bad

a)

Farmers couldn’t farm, people were dying

b)

People couldn’t breath

c)

There was no fresh soil

d)

Nothing

23.

What was the WPA

a)

A program working with the art and entertainment

b)

Women sports league

c)

A job force

d)

Tv show

24.

Who did FDR go up against in 1936

a)

hoover

b)

Alf Landon

c)

Francis

d)

Douglass

25.

What did people think about Alf Landon

a)

He was republican

b)

He was socialist

c)

He was crazy

d)

Never talked to anyone

26.

What was Black Tuesday

a)

It was the day when stock went down, and marked the beginning of the depression

b)

To marked the beginning of depression

c)

it was a day when colored people were discrimination against

d)

A random Tuesday.

27.

What was the idea of the social security act

a)

To get old people out of work so young people could have more jobs

b)

So old people could work longer and gain more money