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US History Review 1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the causes of the Great Depression (There is more then one correct answer, choose all that apply)?

a)

Buying on Margin- people taking out loans to buy stocks

b)

Bank Closures- Banks didn't have money so they closed down

c)

Overproduction- Businesses weren't efficient and had surplus

d)

Underconsumption- People bought less g/s bcuz they were poor

2.

Because of the Great Depression, what happened to unemployment?

a)

It rose a little

b)

It rose sharply

c)

It decreased a little

d)

It decreased sharply

3.

These shanty towns were named (out of anger) after which president during the 1930s?

a)

Hoovervilles (Hoover)

b)

Trumanvilles (Truman)

c)

Rooseveltvilles (Roosevelt)

d)

Johnsonvilles (Johnson)

4.

President Herbert Hoover believed in what policy during the Great Depression?

a)

Laissez-Faire

b)

Yellow Journalism

c)

Freedmans Bureau

d)

Containment

5.

What happened to the number of closings of businesses and banks during the Great Depression?

a)

It increased

b)

It decreased

c)

They stayed the same

6.

Who was elected after President Hoover?

a)

FDR (Roosevelt)

b)

LBJ (Johnson)

c)

JFK (Kennedy)

d)

Truman

7.

When FDR took office, he knew something had to be done, so he created what?

a)

The Great Society

b)

The New Deal

c)

Reagonomics

d)

The Freedmans Bureau

8.

How did FDR represent the government being dynamic?

a)

The government went from no control to a lot of control

b)

The government went from a lot of control to no control

c)

Nothing changed

9.

What war helped pull the US out of the Great Depression?

a)

World War 1

b)

World War 2

c)

Cold War

d)

Vietnam War

10.

Choose a response below based on the following prompt; "I feel very comfortable with material presented in the Economics unit."

a)

Strongly Agree

b)

Agree

c)

Disagree

d)

Strongly Disagree