WorksheetsGreat Depression Review
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 18mins
What was the term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression?
Hooverville
Herberton
Warrenton
Edwardsville
A seasoned political and business leader who represented the promise of continued prosperity to Americans during the late 1920s
(a)
The economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will make its way down to consumers.
Up and Down Stock
Trickle-down Economics
Recession
Loan Forgiveness
What are people who pay rent to a landowner for the use of farming the land were called.
(a)
People would wait in these for food handouts from charities or public agencies.
Food Lines
Bread Lines
Restaurant Lines
Hooverlines
The General that President Hoover called on to remove the Bonus Army from Washington.
(a)
Who was the group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington D.C. in 1932.
Veterans United
Pets for Vets
Bonus Army
Seven Nation Army
The movement among white Americans in the Southwest to encourage or coerce Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico
(a)
What was the policy that President Hoover relied on during the early years of the depression?
Hooverism
Capitalism
Marxism
Localism
The term used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s when the region suffered from drought and dust storms.
(a)
A period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the US economy faltered and unemployment soared.
Great Depression
Great Regression
Great Recession
Great Obsession
October 29, 1929 became known as, when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash
(a)
What was set up by Congress in 1932 that provided emergency government credit to banks, railroads, and other large businesses
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Food Administration
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The name of the protective import tax authorized by Congress in 1930
(a)
A practice that many investors would make in hopes that they would turn high-risk investments into large profits.
Inspection
Speculation
Dissertation
Alleviation
The general term used to describe Dust Bowl refugees
(a)
What structure was built on the Colorado River during the Great Depression?
Golden Gate Bridge
Hoover Bridge
Hoover Dam
Colorado Dam
A periodic growth and contraction of the economy is called.
(a)
