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The Great Depression

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was president when the Great Depression started?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Tom Brady

d)

Herbert Hoover

2.

What event is considered to be the start of the Great Depression?

a)

The birth of Mrs. Hussey

b)

When Betty White passed away.

c)

The stock market crash.

d)

The New Deal.

3.

What president was elected when he promised Americans a 'New Deal'?

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Jimmy Carter

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

John F. Kennedy

4.

What was the 'New Deal'?

a)

A broadway musical.

b)

A series of laws and programs to help end the Great Depression.

c)

A radio show put on by the president.

d)

The name of the Federal Bank.

5.

What were the shanty towns where many homeless lived called during the Great Depression?

a)

Little Five Points

b)

Inman Park

c)

Franklin Park

d)

Hooverville

6.

What event brought an end to the Great Depression?

a)

World War II

b)

Batman

c)

Cold War

d)

Revolutionary War

7.

Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the American public in weekly broadcasts known as:

a)

Fireside Chats & Chill

b)

Hanging with Franky

c)

Fireside Chats

d)

Around the FIre

8.

 The New Deal program which primarily employed single, young men and worked to preserve parks and forests

a)

Works Progress Administration

b)

Civilian Conservation Corps

c)

Tennessee Valley Authority

d)

NBA

9.

Jesse Owens was known for:

a)

Opening the first Starbucks.

b)

Being a stockbroker.

c)

Tap dancing.

d)

Winning 4 gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.

10.

What was the name of Margaret Mitchell's book?

a)

Gone Girl

b)

The Great Gatsby

c)

The Catcher in the Rye

d)

Gone with the Wind

11.

The Dust Bowl was....

a)

A college football game.

b)

Severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s in the Great Plains.

c)

Part of the New Deal.

d)

The name of Roosevelt's autobiography.

12.

A place where food was served to the unemployed and homeless during the Great Depression was called:

a)

Soup Kitchens

b)

Hoover's Diner

c)

Nana's Kitchen

d)

Waffle House

13.

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.

a)

Works Progress Administration

b)

Social Security Administration

c)

National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933

d)

Civil Works Administration

14.

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?

a)

Public Works Administration

b)

Works Progress Administration

c)

Farm Security Administration

d)

Tennessee Valley Authority

15.

Duke Ellington was

a)

A baseball player.

b)

A composer of jazz, blues and swing music.

c)

A painter.

d)

Vice president.