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Unit 3 Great Depression

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What vocab word means "Paying a small percentage of stock's price on a down payment and borrowing the rest?"

a)

Dow Jones Industrial Average

b)

Speculation

c)

Buying on Margin

d)

Black Tuesday

2.
Buying stock without knowing the risks, assuming it will just go up is known as ________.
a)
speculation
b)
buying on margin
c)
market capitalization
d)
hammering the market
3.
Month and Day that Stock Market Crashed
a)
October 28, 1929
b)
October 29, 1928
c)
October 29, 1929
d)
October 29, 1939
4.

What is another name for the day the stock market crashed?

a)

Great Depression

b)

Black Friday

c)

Wall Street Ruins

d)

Black Tuesday

5.

How did the President respond to the Stock Market Crash?

a)

Told people the government would set regulations on Wall Street

b)

Told people that the government would set up unemployment programs

c)

Told people that they would get through it without the governments help

d)

Told people to panic and withdraw all their money from the bank now.

6.

What happened in the 1930's with Banks in the US?

a)

People raced to the bank to withdraw $ and were able to get all their savings

b)

People raced to the bank to withdraw $ and often lost much of their $ due to bank failures

c)

Banks failed and left people's savings boxes on their front doors

d)

The banks invested in the stock market and forgave all loans due to them

7.

Choose the picture that best fits with bank issues in the Depression

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

a)

Banks closed(failed)

b)

banks gave away their money

c)

they couldn't remember where they put it

d)

They gave it away to charity to help those in need

9.

Which answer below is NOT considered a cause of the Great Depression?

a)

Stock Market Crash

b)

Dust Bowl

c)

Overspending and credit in the 1920's

d)

Bank runs

10.
President during the 1930s who was considered a failure because he couldn't fix the Great Depression.
a)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
b)
Herbert Hoover
c)
Margaret Mitchell
d)
Jessie Owens
11.
In the 1930's, people would line up at ____________ to get food.  These were normally run by charities.
a)
churches
b)
businesses
c)
soup kitchens
d)
work
12.
What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?
a)
Hoovervilles
b)
Okies
c)

HoboTowns

d)
Rooseveltowns
13.
What natural disaster of the 1930s added insult to injury?
a)
Flooding along the Mississippi River
b)
The Dust Bowl
c)
Tornadoes called the Helen Hunt Twisters
d)
Hurricanes along the Gulf Coast
14.

Choose the picture that best fits with the Dust Bowl

a)
b)
c)
d)
15.

What caused the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression?

a)

Tornandos , hurricanes

b)

Overfarming, drought

c)

Overspeculation, tariffs

d)

Too much snow & rain

16.

In the Dust Bowl, what did some farmers do to try and survive?

a)

Move south

b)

Move to California

c)

Move to the east coast

d)

Change jobs

17.
What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?
a)

Many farms in the Midwest were not able to survive

b)
Unemployment decreased gradually.
c)
Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
d)
Hoover was re-elected as president.
18.

What happened to unemployment rates during the Great Depression?

a)

Unemployment reached a low of 5%

b)

Unemployment reached a high of 25%

c)

Unemployment reached a high of 50%

d)

Unemployment reached a high of 40% but then lowered to 5%

19.

Who suffered the highest unemployment rate in the Great Depression?

a)

White men

b)

Farmers

c)

Black Americans

d)

White women

20.
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Great Depression?
a)
homelessness
b)
bank failures
c)
high tariffs
d)
struggling farmers