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WorksheetsGreat Depression/Pre-Civil War #2
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The period from March 9th to June 16th 1933 that Congress passed more than 15 major pieces of New Deal legislation.
The Legislation Days
The Productive Hundred
The Hundred Days
Paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
Pre-Credit
Buying on Margin
Margin Call
At 726 feet high and 1,244 feet long it would be the world’s tallest dam and second largest.
Boulder Dam
Grand Coulee Dam
Kensico Dam
This region industrialized rapidly as factories turned out an ever increasing amount of products.
The South
The Midwest
The North
By the 1930’s people were calling shantytowns in American cities this.
Depressionville
Hoovervilles
Dumpstervilles
The name given to Kansas due it becoming a violent battlefield to make Kansas pro or anti-slavery was this.
Fighting Kansas
Angry Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Making monthly payments with interest charged.
Get It Now Plan
Debt Later Plan
Installment Plan
In 1852, she published Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The novel gave the message that slavery was not just a political contest but also a great moral struggle
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
The period from 1929 to 1940 in which the economy fell and unemployment skyrocketed.
The Panic of 1929
The Great Depression
World War II
Groups formed specifically to supply rifles, animals, seed and farm equipment to anti-slavery migrants
Free State Corporations
Emigrant Aid Societies
Abolitionist Forums
Despite all the government programs, the Great Depression didn’t end until this started
The Dust Bowl
The Third New Deal
World War II
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, In the Dred Scott case, he ruled that slaves did not have the same rights as citizens.
Dred Scott
Millard Fillmore
Roger B. Taney
This group of between 10,000 and 20,000 WWI veterans and their families marched on Washington D.C. in the spring of 1932.
The Angry Vets
The Bonus Army
The American Vets for Freedom Club
This region remained a mostly rural (farming) society consisting mostly of plantations and small farms.
The South
The Midwest
The North
Angered with Senator Sumners making fun of his Uncle’’s speech and Pro-Slavery beliefs, he walked into the Senate chambers and struck Sumner on his head over and over again with a cane until the cane broke
Andrew Butler
Preston Brooks
Charles Sumner
A slave from Missouri, he claimed that he was free because he had lived in a free territory for several years
Dred Scott
Millard Fillmore
Roger B. Taney
Homeless people called the newspapers they wrapped themselves in to stay warm this
Poor Man's Quilts
Depression Blankets
Hoover Blankets
The right of citizens of a territory to vote on whether or not they wanted slavery in their territory.
Slave Picking
Manifest Destiny
Popular Sovereignty
FDR’s set of policies for his administration to combat the Great Depression.
Happy Days Are Here Again
The New Deal
The Great Plan
He was elected President of the Confederate States of America.
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
A term originally referring to people from Oklahoma but later used to refer to all of the western moving people
Hillbillies
Dusters
Okies
Douglas’s response to the question of whether or not settlers could vote to exclude slavery before a territory became a student became known as this.
Freeport Doctrine
Fairness Doctrine
Pro-Sovereignty Rules
A period of rising stock prices.
Bear Market
Peak Market
Bull Market
He led the group of Marines who stormed the engine house where Brown and his men had barricaded themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
A Known as FDR, he won the 1932 Presidential election.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Francis David Rubinstein
Herbert Hoover
