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WorksheetsGreat Depression Exam Review
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 13mins
What did the WPA (Works Progress Administration) do?
It reorganized the banks.
It gave food assistance to Americans.
It gave Americans jobs.
It cleaned up state parks.
Which decade is associated with the Great Depression?
1860s
1870s
1920s
1930s
Which constitutional amendment was passed during the Great Depression?
13th amendment
18th amendment
19th amendment
21st amendment
What is NOT true about the 21st amendment?
It was the only amendment to repeal (get rid of) another amendment.
It repealed the 13th amendment.
It banished prohibition.
It was supported by FDR's administration.
Which Florida hurricane happened during the Great Depression era?
Hurricane Michael
Miami Hurricane that ended the land boom
Hurricane that flooded Lake Okeechobee
Labor Day Hurricane that hit the Keys
This was the name for the many government programs and groups created to help Americans during the Great Depression.
alphabet agencies
special programs
relief agencies
CCCs
This was a government agency that employed young men for conservation work like planting trees, fighting fires, building bridges, and building our state park system.
WPA (Works Progress Administration)
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp)
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
NRA (National Recovery Administration)
Florida suffered from the Great Depression before other states did because of...
WWI
Labor Day Hurricane
government corruption
falling land prices
Who led the country through MOST of the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
John Kennedy
What got the US out of the Great Depression?
land boom
New Deal
WWI
WWII
What was the greatest lasting impact of the Great Depression?
government's role in peoples' everyday lives grew
the US never had a financial crisis again
the banks were permanently fixed
people were hungry
This was the president that Americans blamed for the Great Depression being so bad.
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
During the Great Depression, if you became homeless and lived in a shantytown, you likely called it a...
paper town
homeless village
Crisis City
Hooverville
During the Great Depression, many people were given hope by the president's plan to put people back to work. What was it called?
Great Society
New Deal
Civil Rights Act
A New Hope
What/who was NOT affected by the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935.
the Florida Keys
WWI veterans
the Overseas Railroad
Lake Okeechobee
What is the event that marks the beginning of the Great Depression?
the Florida land bust
Black Tuesday
bank runs
the first Fireside Chat
- Increase in demand for soup kitchens
- Business failures
- Large numbers of homeless people
- High unemployment
- Migration from Great Plains to California
All of these CAUSED the Great Depression EXCEPT:
bank failures
overproduction
too much speculation on the stock market
Black Tuesday
Which is the correct order of eras?
WWI, roaring twenties, Great Depression, WWII
WWII, WWII, roaring twenties, Great Depression
roaring twenties, Great Depression, WWI, WWII
WWI, Great Depression, roaring twenties, WWII
