WorksheetsThe Great Depression
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Who was president when the Great Depression started?
Barack Obama
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tom Brady
Herbert Hoover
What event is considered to be the start of the Great Depression?
The birth of Mrs. Hussey
When Betty White passed away.
The stock market crash.
The New Deal.
What president was elected when he promised Americans a 'New Deal'?
Herbert Hoover
Jimmy Carter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
What was the 'New Deal'?
A broadway musical.
A series of laws and programs to help end the Great Depression.
A radio show put on by the president.
The name of the Federal Bank.
What were the shanty towns where many homeless lived called during the Great Depression?
Little Five Points
Inman Park
Franklin Park
Hooverville
What event brought an end to the Great Depression?
World War II
Batman
Cold War
Revolutionary War
Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the American public in weekly broadcasts known as:
Fireside Chats & Chill
Hanging with Franky
Fireside Chats
Around the FIre
The New Deal program which primarily employed single, young men and worked to preserve parks and forests
Works Progress Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tennessee Valley Authority
NBA
Jesse Owens was known for:
Opening the first Starbucks.
Being a stockbroker.
Tap dancing.
Winning 4 gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
What was the name of Margaret Mitchell's book?
Gone Girl
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
Gone with the Wind
The Dust Bowl was....
A college football game.
Severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s in the Great Plains.
Part of the New Deal.
The name of Roosevelt's autobiography.
A place where food was served to the unemployed and homeless during the Great Depression was called:
Soup Kitchens
Hoover's Diner
Nana's Kitchen
Waffle House
This program built more than 4,000 new school buildings and 130 new hospitals, laid roughly 9,000 miles of storm drains and sewer lines, built 29,000 new bridges, and paved 280,000 miles of roads.
Works Progress Administration
Social Security Administration
National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
Civil Works Administration
This act of May 18, 1933, created which program to oversee the construction of dams to control flooding, improve navigation, and create cheap electric power?
Public Works Administration
Works Progress Administration
Farm Security Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Duke Ellington was
A baseball player.
A composer of jazz, blues and swing music.
A painter.
Vice president.
