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WorksheetsUS History Review 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
What were the causes of the Great Depression (There is more then one correct answer, choose all that apply)?
Buying on Margin- people taking out loans to buy stocks
Bank Closures- Banks didn't have money so they closed down
Overproduction- Businesses weren't efficient and had surplus
Underconsumption- People bought less g/s bcuz they were poor
Because of the Great Depression, what happened to unemployment?
It rose a little
It rose sharply
It decreased a little
It decreased sharply
These shanty towns were named (out of anger) after which president during the 1930s?
Hoovervilles (Hoover)
Trumanvilles (Truman)
Rooseveltvilles (Roosevelt)
Johnsonvilles (Johnson)
President Herbert Hoover believed in what policy during the Great Depression?
Laissez-Faire
Yellow Journalism
Freedmans Bureau
Containment
What happened to the number of closings of businesses and banks during the Great Depression?
It increased
It decreased
They stayed the same
Who was elected after President Hoover?
FDR (Roosevelt)
LBJ (Johnson)
JFK (Kennedy)
Truman
When FDR took office, he knew something had to be done, so he created what?
The Great Society
The New Deal
Reagonomics
The Freedmans Bureau
How did FDR represent the government being dynamic?
The government went from no control to a lot of control
The government went from a lot of control to no control
Nothing changed
What war helped pull the US out of the Great Depression?
World War 1
World War 2
Cold War
Vietnam War
Choose a response below based on the following prompt; "I feel very comfortable with material presented in the Economics unit."
Strongly Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
