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WorksheetsStandards 17 and 18: Great Depression and New Deal
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which development caused many U.S. businesses to reduce the size of their labor forces just before the Great Depression?
Monopolies forced several entrepreneurs out of business.
Technological advances made it possible to automate many factory jobs.
Congress passed a law protecting the right of factory workers to form unions.
Consumers began to purchase fewer goods than businesses had produced.
Use the quotation to answer the question below.
We have found our factories able to turn out more goods than we could possibly consume, and at the same time we were faced with a falling export demand... The people of this country have been erroneously encouraged to believe that they could keep on increasing the output of... factory indefinitely and that some magician would find ways and means for that increased output to be consumed with reasonable profit to the producer.
--President Franklin D. Roosevelt,1933
What was the historical context of President Roosevelt's description in the quotation?
the causes of the Red Scare
the rise of American muckraking
the origins of the Great Depression
the beginning of U.S. expansionism
The term ¨Hooverville¨ refers to
new subdivisions of homes that were constructed during the ¨land boom¨ of the early-1920s.
the tent cities that thousands of soldiers inhabited while fighting in France in World War I.
the popular name for shanty towns that were common during the Great Depression.
the homes that were constructed for the poor during the New Deal.
Which of the following New Deal programs SIGNIFICANTLY impacted the geographical landscape of a single part of the United States?
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Use this quote to answer the question.
¨Let me assert [declare] my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.¨
--President Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933
In his first inaugural address, President Franklin D, Roosevelt was warning the American people NOT to be discouraged by the effects of
Adolph Hitler's rise to power in Germany
Japanese expansion in the Pacific
the Great Depression
Prohibition
During the Great Depression, expressions such as Hoovervilles and Hoover blankets showed that President Hoover
Was seen as a role model
used the military to aid the unemployed
was blamed for the suffering of the poor
supported relief and public housing for the needy
In 1929 the Great Depression started in the United States. In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president and he promised a "New Deal" to the American people. Which of the following BEST describes the role of the government during the New Deal?
) The government wanted people to take care of themselves and not use the government.
The New Deal led to the government having more authority and being more involved in the economy of the country.
The government wanted people to let the government provide everything they needed.
The New Deal led to the government being less involved in the economy of the country.
