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Great Depression Vocabulary

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the day that the stock market crashed

a)

Black Tuesday

b)

Depression Tuesday

c)

Crash Tuesday

d)

Wall Street Tuesday

2.

a nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930s

a)

Dust Bowl

b)

Dust Dome

c)

Dusty Plains

d)

Dust Land

3.

government-funded building projects that provide jobs

a)

subsidy

b)

public works

c)

Fireside Chats

d)

Deficit

4.

a plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression

a)

New Deal

b)

Social Security

c)

Hundred Days

d)

Second New Deal

5.

a system for providing pensions for many Americans over the age of 65

a)

Social Security

b)

Deficit

c)

Subsidy

d)

Buying on a Margin

6.

These shantytowns popped up in cities during the early part of the Depression

a)

Hoovervilles

b)

Rooseveltiums

c)

Wilsontowns

d)

Rye

7.

The Bonus Army was a group of ______ veterans who marched to Washington

D.C. to demand their bonus pay. Their march and the government’s reaction

was a major event of the Great Depression.

a)

WWI

b)

WWII

c)

Vietnam

d)

Spanish-American

8.
What were the 3 causes of the Great Depression?
a)
FDR, The New Deal, The Second New Deal
b)
Herbert Hoover, Hobos, Riding the Rails
c)
Credit, Stock Market Crash, Corruption
9.

The _________________ was a group of U.S. government programs enacted by FDR.

a)

New Deal

b)

Obama Care

c)

Designing agency

d)

commercial Assistance

10.

Choose the answer that best describes the Dust Bowl.

a)

When people get a lot of dust in their plates and bowls.

b)

A period of time where a large part of the US experienced drought and huge dust storms.

c)

When a dust storm came through Lubbock last year.

d)

A general term for when objects become dirty.

11.

When severe drought hit the Great Plains in 1930, many sought refuge in

a)

Texas

b)

New York

c)

California

12.

What led to the Mexican repatriation?

a)

overpopulation

b)

The US decided to be scandalous

c)

Claimed Mexican people were taking American jobs

d)

the great depression needed to be more depressing

13.

Who wrote the book, Grapes of Wrath?

a)

John Steinbeck

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

William Faulkner

d)

John Leguizamo

14.

When you own part of a company, this means you own ________ of that company.

a)

dividend

b)

asset

c)

stock

d)

bankrupt