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WorksheetsChapter 18, Lesson 2
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 36mins
Many people became poor or poorer and went hungry when the Great Depression struck. Those that became homeless and put up shacks on unused or public lands, formed shantytown communities called "_________".
Santa Towns
Shanty Towns
Hobovilles
Hoovervilles
During the Great Depression, unemployed people, mostly men, began to wander around the country - walking, hitchhiking, or "riding the rails." These wanderers came to be called ____________.
Tommies
Hoboes
Hoover Bailiffs
Krauts
The sad thing about the Great Depression is the fact that it coincided with a _________ in the entire Midwest section of the United States. It came to be called the "Dust Bowl".
Severe drought
Severe disease
Major war
Bumper crop
Farmers who packed up and moved West, hoping for a better life, were called "__________."
Heinnies
Tommies
Okies
Jerries
The hard times of the 1930's led many Americans to prefer entertainment that let people __________ their worries. For this reason, the movies and radio comedies grew increasingly popular.
embrace
enjoy
escape
fight
Which movie, based on a novel from John Steinbeck, showed the plight of the Joads in Oklahoma and their migration west to California?
Duck Soup
The Gold Diggers
Grapes of Wrath
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Daytime radio dramas that carried over their storylines from day to day, were called ___________ because the programs were mainly sponsored by laundry soaps?
Sitcoms
Drama Marathons
Soap Operas
Vaudevilles
Huge dust storms on the Great Plains during the 1930's were called ____________.
Sand Storms
Black Blizzards
Dust Hurricanes
Soil Rainfalls
We learned of two popular photo-journalists that took Pulitzer Prize winning photos of the plight of Americans during the Great Depression. Which photographer was responsible for taking the photo, "Migrant Mother"?
Dorothea Lange
Margaret Bourke-White
John Steinbeck
W.E.B. Du Bois
What artist during the 1930's took this Pulitzer Prize winning photo entitled, "The World's Highest Standard of Living"?
Dorothea Lange
Grant Wood
Margaret Bourke-White
Thomas Wolfe
We learned that by 1933, ___% of America's workforce was unemployed. This is huge considering that today's unemployment rate is 4.1%.
10%
25%
15%
8%
The sad thing about the Great Depression was the fact that the federal government wanted to send immigrants back to their homeland, but because it was too expensive, people of ______ descent were rounded up and forcibly returned to their homeland.
Irish
German
Italian
Mexican
The reason why Mexican people were rounded up and sent back to Mexico during the Great Depression had to do with the fact that it was more _____ to do this.
worthy
desired
cost effective
shameful
During the 1930's the Midwest had and average of ____ dust storms a year.
50
40
30
20
The reason why it was so tragic that the federal government sent thousands of Mexicans back to Mexico was the fact that about half of them were ______?
illegal immigrants
U.S. citizens
women
prominent Americans
Hundreds of Americans and hundreds of animals died during the Dust Bowl as a result of _____?
Suffocating from the dust
Fires created by slash & burn
Too much rain and precipation
A lack of doctors
Soap operas on the radio during the 1930's got their name from ______?
People who would take a bath once a week
Automobile cars that needed a car wash
Laundry commercials that often advertised during the shows
Car washes that aimed to get people to spend their money
The contradiction about Hattie McDaniel winning an Academy Award for her performance in the 1939 film, Gone With the Wind, was the fact that she _______?
Wasn't invited to the Academy Awards because she was Italian
Wasn't allowed to be a movie star because she was an immigrant
Wasn't allowed to let anyone know she was from the South
Wasn't allowed to enter the front door of the convention center where the awards were held because she was black
