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WorksheetsCH. 9 and 10 - Great Depression/New Deal
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 19mins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Works Progress Administration was the largest program of the New Deal. It employed 8.5 million people. WPA programs included the creation of:
Schools, hospitals, roads, parks, and the arts
Electrical power plants in the Tennessee Valley
Kitchens to feed the hungry
Elevators, tall office buildings and shantytowns
The Tennessee Valley Authority included doing things like:
Irrigation, paying artists to paint murals, and National Parks
Climbing telephone poles, nature trails, and flood control
Building dams, irrigation, and controlling flooding
How was the Dust Bowl caused by both humans and nature?
Many families moving from Dust Bowl areas settled in the San Joachin Valley and became migrant farmers.
Nearly 350 dust storms carried away the topsoil, and land and homes were covered with dust.
Farming methods and cattle had harmed the land, and then a severe drought hit the region in the mid-1930s.
Which exaggerated event is said to have marked the end of the Roaring 20's and the beginning of the Great Depression in the 1930s?
The election of Herbert Hoover
The Stock Market Crash
The Dust Bowl
The Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Migrants from the Great Plains headed west in search of better lives were called
Okies
Speculators
Wagners
Hoosier
This act offered unemployed men work planting trees & building reservoirs and it was the most highly praised New Deal program.
Wagner Act
Glass-Steagall Act
Civilian Conservation Corp
Public Works Administration
What is one way that charities helped the poor during the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
Soup kitchens
Dust bowls
Public works
To regulate the stock market, Congress created the
Public Works Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Securities & Exchange Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Stock prices began to decline in 1929 because
stockbrokers stopped margin loans
investors began to sell their stock
company earnings declined
companies went bankrupt
As a result of the stock market crash, banks were forced to
attract more depositors
approve more loans
increase interest rates
close their doors
The day the Stock Market took its deepest dive was called
Red Thursday
Black Tuesday
Black Friday
Bloody Sunday
People who took a chance on the stock market were called
Speculators
Okies
Bailiffs
Republicans
During the Depression, homeless communities of shacks were called
Hobo towns
Bonus Armies
Hoovervilles
Okie towns
The period between March & June 1933 when FDR passed 15 major Acts to combat the Great Depression is called ___.
New Deal
New Freedom
First 100 Days
Nationalism
Why did banks fail after the stock market crash?
large numbers of people trying to get their money out
the Dust Bowl
the rise of prices on consumer goods
The government planned to provide electricity to rural areas through which New Deal program?
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
What is stock speculation?
buying stocks in hopes of making a quick profit and not considering risks
insider trading
stock pooling
Which was a main cause of the Great Depression?
increase in European trade
high prices and low production
Buying on credit
Main causes of the Great Depression, pick all that apply.
credit
deflation
over production
stock market crash
major un-employment
If you bought a stock "on-margin" you were essentially doing what?
buying a stock for a fraction of the price and borrowing money for the rest.
buying a stock with your own money.
buying a stock for your friends.
FDR made people feel important as citizens when he spoke to them directly in their living rooms through Fireside Chats. How did he do this?
on the tv
on the telephone
on the radio
New Deal programs had a nickname. What was it?
alphabet soup laws
the big help
relief and recovery
HOLC
The first people to truly feel the depression were farmers after world war one. What is the main reason they felt it?
the stock market rose and fell
lots of new equipment they bought with cash
big credit loans and overproduction of crops for the war
What two new deal programs were designed to protect your money in the bank?
CCC and TVA
SEC and FDIC
NRA and AAA
What two new deal programs were specifically designed for farmers?
AAA and FCA
NRA and AAA
NIRA and WPA
