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WorksheetsGreat Depression Vocabulary
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the day that the stock market crashed
Black Tuesday
Depression Tuesday
Crash Tuesday
Wall Street Tuesday
a nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930s
Dust Bowl
Dust Dome
Dusty Plains
Dust Land
government-funded building projects that provide jobs
subsidy
public works
Fireside Chats
Deficit
a plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression
New Deal
Social Security
Hundred Days
Second New Deal
a system for providing pensions for many Americans over the age of 65
Social Security
Deficit
Subsidy
Buying on a Margin
These shantytowns popped up in cities during the early part of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Rooseveltiums
Wilsontowns
Rye
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.
WWI
WWII
Vietnam
Spanish-American
The _________________ was a group of U.S. government programs enacted by FDR.
New Deal
Obama Care
Designing agency
commercial Assistance
Choose the answer that best describes the Dust Bowl.
When people get a lot of dust in their plates and bowls.
A period of time where a large part of the US experienced drought and huge dust storms.
When a dust storm came through Lubbock last year.
A general term for when objects become dirty.
When severe drought hit the Great Plains in 1930, many sought refuge in
Texas
New York
California
What led to the Mexican repatriation?
overpopulation
The US decided to be scandalous
Claimed Mexican people were taking American jobs
the great depression needed to be more depressing
Who wrote the book, Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
William Shakespeare
William Faulkner
John Leguizamo
When you own part of a company, this means you own ________ of that company.
dividend
asset
stock
bankrupt
