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Great Depression

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

On this day, the stock market crashes

a)

October 29, 1929

b)

November 3, 1927

c)

October 6, 1928

d)

December 15, 1930

2.

On this day, the stock market crashes

a)

Red Monday

b)

Yellow Thursday

c)

Black Tuesday

d)

Green Friday

3.

What is the acronym to help remember the causes of the Great Depression?

a)

Main

b)

Wish

c)

Rock

d)

Hobbs

4.

Which of the follow is NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

a)

Stock Market Crashing

b)

Buying on Credit

c)

High Tariffs

d)

Treaty of Versailles

5.

What time period does the Great Depression roughly take place in?

a)

1914-1918

b)

1929-1939

c)

1882-1892

d)

1939-1945

6.

These are the makeshift shantytowns that sprang up on the edges of America's cities

a)

Boomtown

b)

Vaudeville

c)

Ghosttown

d)

Hooverville

7.

This was a natural disaster in the 1930's that turned the Great Plains into an area with lots of dust storms

a)

Hurricane Canyon

b)

Hooverville

c)

Dustbowl

d)

Tornado Alley

8.

The Dustbowl was the result of which two things?

a)

Poor farming

b)

The disappearance of the bees

c)

Global Warming

d)

Drought

9.

The Dust Bowl affected which area of the US the most?

a)

The Great Plains

b)

The Pacific Northwest

c)

The Southeast

d)

The North East

10.

This agency tried to raise crop prices

a)

WWW

b)

CCC

c)

FDIC

d)

AAA

11.

This agency provided work for artists, musicians, engineers, and architects through public work projects

a)

TVA

b)

WPA/PWA

c)

FDIC

d)

CCC

12.

This agency created jobs in a poor, rural area by building hydorelectric dams

a)

SSA

b)

AAA

c)

TVA

d)

BBB

13.

This agency gave financial aid to those who were disabled, elderly, unemployed, or injured

a)

TVA

b)

HDMI

c)

FDIC

d)

SSA

14.

This agency insured banks

a)

SSA

b)

FDIC

c)

TVA

d)

USAA

15.

This agency provided nature preservation jobs to young men

a)

AAA

b)

CCC

c)

TVA

d)

SSA

16.

The president who introduced the New Deal

a)

Hoover

b)

Wilson

c)

Coolidge

d)

FDR

17.

What was the New Deal?

a)

A series of government programs to help the US get out of the Depression

b)

This isn't the answer

c)

This also isn't the answer

d)

Don't pick this one

18.

How many workers were unemployed during the height of the Great Depression?

a)

32%

b)

14%

c)

20%

d)

25%

19.

What is a tax on imports?

a)

Overproduction

b)

Export

c)

Tariff

d)

Stock

20.

Who is the president who felt Americans should "pick themselves up by their bootstraps" instead of the government giving help?

a)

FDR

b)

Wilson

c)

Coolidge

d)

Hoover