WorksheetsGreat Depression & New Deal Fast & Curious
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Black Tuesday
a)
stock market crash of 1929 - October 24th, started the 10 year depression
b)
devastating flooding in New England that resulted from a series of record-breaking storms that pounded the region daily between March 9 and March 22, 1936
c)
a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938
d)
an era of political and economic change marked by President Ronald Reagan’s conservative agenda calling for lower taxes, reduced government regulation of business, and cuts in spending on social programs
2.
stock market
a)
where people buy and sell investments in companies
b)
the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services
c)
a wage high enough to provide an acceptable standard of living
d)
a vocational college for African Americans in Alabama, founded by Booker T. Washington
3.
Great Plains
a)
vast grassland region of the US - middle of the country
b)
the first settlement house in Chicago, founded by Jane Addams
c)
an area of the Great Plains of the United States that suffered severely from wind erosion during the 1930s
d)
the area in parts of the Northeast and Midwest that suffered economically because of rusting factories left behind by declining industries as a large part of the population moved to Sunbelt states
4.
drought
a)
prolonged absence of rainfall
b)
tax levied by a government directly on income, especially an annual tax on personal income
c)
having to take a mandatory leave of absence from a job without pay
d)
a physical condition that results from a person not eating an adequately healthful diet
5.
Overproduction
a)
a situation in which more goods are being produced than people can afford to buy
b)
Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power
c)
the glorification of military power and values
d)
where people buy and sell investments in companies
6.
New Deal
a)
a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938
b)
President Lyndon Johnson's domestic reform program from 1965 to 1969, which focused on social welfare improvements, with the War on Poverty at its centerpiece, and almost all of which Congress passed
c)
military equipment and supplies
d)
shanty town built by homeless people during the Great Depression
7.
Great Depression
a)
the financial and industrial slump of 1929 and subsequent years
b)
a protest in which more than 250,000 people demonstrated in the nation's capital for "jobs and freedom" and the passage of civil rights legislation
c)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic program from 1933 to 1939, which aimed to bring about immediate economic relief from the Great Depression
d)
President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program, focused on regulating big business, protecting workers and consumers, and preserving the environment
8.
FDIC
a)
New Deal law that insures the money you have in a bank.
b)
an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America
c)
a federal agency established in 1865, at the end of the Civil War, to help and protect the 4 million newly freed black Americans as they transitioned out of enslavement
d)
a law passed by Congress in 1949 to create public housing and urban renewal programs in order to help all Americans live in decent conditions
9.
Dust Bowl
a)
an area of the Great Plains of the United States that suffered severely from wind erosion during the 1930s
b)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic program from 1933 to 1939, which aimed to bring about immediate economic relief from the Great Depression
c)
from about 1795 to 1835, a period of renewed religious fervor among Christians in the United States
d)
shanty town built by homeless people during the Great Depression
10.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
a)
32nd president of the US - elected 4 times, enacted the New Deal
b)
31st president of the US - was president at the start of the depression
c)
25th president of the United States
d)
leader of the Republican Party in the early 1900’s - President of the United States
11.
Herbert Hoover
a)
31st president of the US - was president at the start of the depression
b)
32nd president of the US - elected 4 times, enacted the New Deal
c)
25th president of the United States
d)
leader of the Republican Party in the early 1900’s - President of the United States
12.
Hoovervilles
a)
shanty town built by homeless people during the Great Depression
b)
a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments
c)
a run-down apartment building
d)
a small factory where employees work long hours under poor conditions for low wages
13.
Buying on Margin
a)
buying stock by paying a percentage of a stock's price and borrowing the rest of the money from a broker, allowing one to make greater profits if the stock does well
b)
achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense
c)
becoming more like a city
d)
where people buy and sell investments in companies
14.
Social Security Act
a)
a law passed by Congress in 1935 to establish federal programs to offer old-age assistance and benefits, unemployment compensation, and aid to needy mothers, children, and the blind
b)
an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America
c)
tax levied by a government directly on income, especially an annual tax on personal income
d)
a law passed by Congress to create public housing and urban renewal programs in order to help all Americans live in decent conditions
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