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Chapter 18, Lesson 2

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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 "_________".

a)

Santa Towns

b)

Shanty Towns

c)

Hobovilles

d)

Hoovervilles

2.

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 ____________.

a)

Tommies

b)

Hoboes

c)

Hoover Bailiffs

d)

Krauts

3.

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".

a)

Severe drought

b)

Severe disease

c)

Major war

d)

Bumper crop

4.

Farmers who packed up and moved West, hoping for a better life, were called "__________."

a)

Heinnies

b)

Tommies

c)

Okies

d)

Jerries

5.

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.

a)

embrace

b)

enjoy

c)

escape

d)

fight

6.

Which movie, based on a novel from John Steinbeck, showed the plight of the Joads in Oklahoma and their migration west to California?

a)

Duck Soup

b)

The Gold Diggers

c)

Grapes of Wrath

d)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

7.

Daytime radio dramas that carried over their storylines from day to day, were called ___________ because the programs were mainly sponsored by laundry soaps?

a)

Sitcoms

b)

Drama Marathons

c)

Soap Operas

d)

Vaudevilles

8.

Huge dust storms on the Great Plains during the 1930's were called ____________.

a)

Sand Storms

b)

Black Blizzards

c)

Dust Hurricanes

d)

Soil Rainfalls

9.

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"?

a)

Dorothea Lange

b)

Margaret Bourke-White

c)

John Steinbeck

d)

W.E.B. Du Bois

10.

What artist during the 1930's took this Pulitzer Prize winning photo entitled, "The World's Highest Standard of Living"?

a)

Dorothea Lange

b)

Grant Wood

c)

Margaret Bourke-White

d)

Thomas Wolfe

11.

We learned that by 1933, ___% of America's workforce was unemployed. This is huge considering that today's unemployment rate is 4.1%.

a)

10%

b)

25%

c)

15%

d)

8%

12.

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.

a)

Irish

b)

German

c)

Italian

d)

Mexican

13.

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.

a)

worthy

b)

desired

c)

cost effective

d)

shameful

14.

During the 1930's the Midwest had and average of ____ dust storms a year.

a)

50

b)

40

c)

30

d)

20

15.

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 ______?

a)

illegal immigrants

b)

U.S. citizens

c)

women

d)

prominent Americans

16.

Hundreds of Americans and hundreds of animals died during the Dust Bowl as a result of _____?

a)

Suffocating from the dust

b)

Fires created by slash & burn

c)

Too much rain and precipation

d)

A lack of doctors

17.

Soap operas on the radio during the 1930's got their name from ______?

a)

People who would take a bath once a week

b)

Automobile cars that needed a car wash

c)

Laundry commercials that often advertised during the shows

d)

Car washes that aimed to get people to spend their money

18.

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 _______?

a)

Wasn't invited to the Academy Awards because she was Italian

b)

Wasn't allowed to be a movie star because she was an immigrant

c)

Wasn't allowed to let anyone know she was from the South

d)

Wasn't allowed to enter the front door of the convention center where the awards were held because she was black