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Great Depression and the New Deal 2021 Quiz

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the impact on Business during The Great Depression?
a)
The demand for goods decreased
b)
The demand for goods increased
c)
The demand for goods stayed the same
d)
Banks were able to make more loans so business could invest more into their buisness
2.
What was the human impact of The Great Depression?
a)
People were homeless and hungry
b)
People generally owned their own home 
c)
People were optimistic about their current circumstances. 
d)
There was so much economic prosperity that Photographers took historical images of all the boisterousness. 
3.

Shanty towns (or shacks) towns were named after this person due to the people’s dissatisfaction of the amount of help they were given after the Stock Market Crash?

a)

Hoovervilles

b)

Shanty Villa

c)

Bum Town

d)

Roosevelt Road Houses

4.
The New Deal was divided into 3 categories: relief for immediate help, reform to fix problems, and _________________________ to help the people and nation “get back on their feet”. 
a)
RELIEF, RECOVERY, & REFORM
b)
RELIEF, RECOVERY, & REFILL
c)
RELIEF, Reincarnation, & REFORM
5.
What federal agency is the >AAA< 
a)
Agricultural Adjustment Act
b)
Apples and Apricots Act
c)
American Automobile Association
d)
Anti-Aircraft Artillery
6.

What did the Tennessee Valley Authority do?

a)

Build dams which provided electrical power

b)

Build Highways so the military could get to the cities quicker

c)

Build Houses

d)

Build Bridges

7.
This type of New Deal program gave immediate, temporary help to unemployed Americans
a)
relief
b)
reform
c)
recovery
8.
This was the name for the set of programs put in place by FDR to help the depression era economy.
a)
fireside chat
b)
bank holiday
c)
New Deal
d)
packing the court
9.
A type of New Deal program that made permanent changes to the economy to fix some of the problems that led to the Great Depression and ensure the Depression wouldn't happen again
a)
relief
b)
reform
c)
recovery
10.
This New Deal reform program insured checking and savings accounts. 
a)
Civilian Conservation Corps
b)
Fair Labor Standards Act
c)
Federal Deposits Insurance Corporation
d)
Social Security Act
11.
Which New Deal program employed young men to work on various projects to improve the country?
a)
Social Security Act
b)
Fair labor Standards Act
c)
Rural Electrification Act
d)
Civilian Conservation Corps
12.
Which New Deal program set aside savings through taxes for unemployment, the disabled or retirement? 
a)
Federal Deposits Insurance Corporation
b)
Social Security Act 
c)
Agricultural Adjustment Act
d)
Civilian Conservation Corps
13.
The purpose of this program is to regulate the stock market & prevent another stock market crash 
a)
FDIC
b)
SEC
c)
TVA
d)
CCC
14.
This program created dams in 7 states to provide cheap hydroelectric power & create jobs 
a)
CCC
b)
TVA
c)
WPA
d)
SEC
15.
During the New Deal, how did the government attempt to improve conditions for farmers through the AAA?
a)
By ending the practice of sharecropping
b)
By raising tariffs on farm imports
c)
By paying farmers to grow fewer crops
d)
By training farmers for jobs in a new field
16.
What cause of the Great Depression did the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) attempt to solve?
a)
Stock market speculation
b)
Overproduction
c)
Weak banking system
d)
Unsafe loans
17.
Who was president at the beginning of the Great Depression and said it was not the government’s job to get the economy out of the depression? 
a)
William McKinley 
b)
Theodore Roosevelt 
c)
Herbert Hoover 
d)
Franklin Roosevelt 
18.
Who was the president that helped create the New Deal program to create jobs in the U.S.? 
a)
William McKinley 
b)
Theodore Roosevelt 
c)
Herbert Hoover 
d)
Franklin Roosevelt 
19.
The Tennessee Valley Authority included doing things like: 
a)
Irrigation, paying artists to paint murals, and National Parks 
b)
Climbing telephone poles, nature trails, and flood control 
c)
Building dams, irrigation, and controlling flooding 
d)
Building roads, bridges, and electricity 
20.
What year did the Stock Market Crash?
a)
1928
b)
1929
c)
1930
d)
1931
21.
What was the name of Franklin Roosevelt’s program that he created to help the U.S. get out of the Great Depression? 
a)
Great Depression 
b)
New Deal 
22.
Where did most people move to during the Dust Bowl to escape the storm and to start over? 
a)
Out West ( California )
b)
Up North ( New York )
c)
Down South ( Georgia )
d)
East ( South Carolina ) 
23.
Shanty towns (make-shift) towns were named after this person due to the people’s dissatisfaction of the amount of help they were given after the Stock Market Crash?
a)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
b)
Herbert Hoover
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
William McKinley
24.
What is one way the New Deal was supposed to help the economy out of the Great Depression?
a)
by eliminating trading on the stock market
b)
by encouraging war with Germany and Japan
c)
by creating jobs through various new programs
d)
by giving people money through new bank laws
25.
Which of the following was one cause Great Depression?
a)
WWI
b)
The invention of the radio
c)
Stock Market Crash
d)
Hoovervilles
26.
What event forced many farmers to leave the Great Plains and move to California and the  North?
a)
The re-election of President Roosevelt
b)
The Dust Bowl
c)
   The bombing of Pearl Harbor
d)
The formation of the TVA
27.
What is the purpose of the Social Security program?
a)
to provide money to those who can’t work due to unemployment or the elderly.
b)
to regulate trading on Wall St. 
c)
to restore confidence in the banking system and prevent runs on the banks. 
d)
to provide men with jobs building parks and planting trees
28.

What president began fireside chats?

a)

George Bush

b)

Donald Trump

c)

Franklin D Roosevelt

d)

Herbert Hoover

29.

What was the purpose of the fireside chats?

a)

To inform

b)

To sing

c)

To perform

d)

To have a friend to talk to

30.

What did the people use to listen to the fireside chats?

a)

AirPods

b)

Radio

c)

TV

d)

Walkie Talkie

31.
What is the time period in the U.S. when people lost their jobs and homes?
a)
Fireside Chats
b)
New Deal 
c)
Great Depression
d)
World War II
32.
The environmental disaster that devastated the Great Plains in the 1930's
a)
Credit
b)
Public Works
c)
Dust Bowl
d)
Mass Media
33.

Who created the Share Our Wealth Program in which he believed that every household should have a wage of $5,000. He was a critic of FDR and later assassinated for his beliefs.

a)

O.K. Allen

b)

Earl Long

c)

Huey Long

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

34.

Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the day that the stock market crashed

a)

Black Tuesday

b)

Depression Tuesday

c)

Crash Tuesday

d)

Wall Street Tuesday

35.

the first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term as president during which Roosevelt implemented many new programs.

a)

Hundred Days

b)

New Deal

c)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

d)

Associative State

36.

Louisiana politician and senator; he criticized the New Deal and set up the Share Our Wealth Society. He wanted to tax wealthy Americans and give more money to poor Americans.

a)

Huey P. Long

b)

Charles Coughlin

c)

John Maynard Keynes

d)

Calvin Coolidge

37.

What is a precedent?

a)

something done or said that becomes an example for others to follow

b)

a tax on imported goods

c)

a political party that believes in a strong central government

d)

a settlement of a dispute where each side gives up some demands

38.
What protects one's money in the bank?
a)
CCC
b)
NRA
c)
FDIC
d)
FBLA
39.
According to Amendment 18 (which was later repealed), adults could not legally buy alcoholic beverages. The practice of making it illegal to buy alcoholic beverages was called
a)
Right to Vote
b)
Income Tax
c)
Women’s Suffrage
d)
Prohibition
40.

#20 Amendment

a)

"Lame Duck" Amendment

b)

Repeal of Prohibition Amendment

c)

Limit on Presidential Terms

d)

Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia

41.
This lame duck amendment shortened the time in office of the outgoing president from March 4 to January 20th.
a)
19
b)
26
c)
20
d)
15
42.

laissez-faire

a)

opposed to government regulation of business

b)

government should control major industries

c)

government should be eliminated

d)

nations should avoid trade

43.

An economic practice where the government does NOT try to control the economy.

a)

Gospel of Wealth

b)

laissez faire

c)

Social Darwinism

d)

horizontal integration

44.

21st Amendment

a)

Repeals 19th Amendment

b)

Repeals 18th Amendment

c)

Repeals 15th Amendment

d)

Repeals 17th Amendment

45.

You have just worked 54 hours in one week.

What is your gross pay for the week if the minimum wage is $7.75

4 lines
46.
What is another name for the Stock Market Crash?
a)
Black Friday
b)
Taco Tuesday
c)
Black Tuesday
d)
Throwback Thursday
47.
Court Packing Plan
a)
highest tariff levels, cause of Great Depression
b)
FDR’s plan to add judges to Supreme Court
c)
set up a minimum wage
d)
bank failures, crash, soup lines
48.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
a)
regulate stock market
b)
set up a minimum wage
c)
unemployment, disability, old age pensions
d)
mediation for labor disputes
49.
Dust Bowl 
a)
great plains, caused by drought and poor farming methods
b)
banking system for United States
c)
regulate stock market
d)
farming subsidies, adjust farm prices
50.
Eleanor Roosevelt
a)
Recorded the misery of the people in her photographs during the Great Depression
b)
Political activist who served as the eyes and ears to her husband, FDR
c)
Writer during the Great Depression, Wrote The Grapes Of Wrath
51.
What was FDR’s plan to add justices to the Supreme Court called?
a)
The Yes Man Trials
b)
Court Packing Scheme
c)
Operation Puppet
d)
Court Repatriation
52.
What was the main criticism of the Court-Packing Scheme?
a)
Congress allowed it
b)
Too much of an expansion of executive power
c)
The Court would be too small
d)
Only state governments could pack the court

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