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WorksheetsThe Great Depression
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
What was the Great Depression?
A period of economic success and an improving economy
The worst economic catastrophe in U.S. history
A period of time that witnessed American involvement in violent foreign wars
A hotly contested presidential election
Everyone rushed to sell stocks at one time causing the what of 1929?
Civil War
Stock Market Crash
Revolutionary War
During the Great Depression, ______.
many Americans lost their jobs
many Americans had little money
many farmers lost their land to drought
a, b, and c
Homeless people built shacks towns out of any materials they could find. These were known as...
Hoover flags
Hoovervilles
Hover tenements
The Dust Bowl took place in the
The Costal Plains
The Great Plains
California
South Texas
What was President Roosevelt's plan for getting the United States out of the Great Depression?
The New Deal
The Relief, Recovery,Reform Act
The Alphabet Agencies
FDR's Deal
Where could people go to get a free hot meal?
Hoovervilles
Banks
McDonalds
Soup kitchens
Which president was blamed for making the Great Depression even worse?
President Roosevelt
President Hoover
President Bush
President Coolidge
What best describes a way in which the Great Depression affected the lives of kids?
Many people moved from shantytowns to the suburbs.
Many children quit school to help their families earn money.
More people got married immediately after finishing school.
Farmers and businessmen were hurt by the rising crop prices
In what ways did the New Deal help Americans?
It improved education for all citizens
It helped people pay taxes
It provided jobs, food, and shelter for those in need
It protected people from discrimination
How were people feeling during the Great Depression?
Roaring Good time!
Hungry, Homeless, Hopeless
Sad
Happy
How did President Franklin Roosevelt tell the American people about his New Deal?
Only in newspapers
On the radio - fireside chats
TV
Unemployment reached its peak at what percentage?
10
25
50
75
Which present day program was created during the Great Depression to provide elderly and disabled citizens income help?
Securities and Exchange Commission
Social Security Administration
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Housing Administration
A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
Nativism
Isolationism
New Deal
Progressive
Gave women the right to vote
18th Amendment
Prohibition
19th Amendment
Repeal
A system for buying and selling shares of companies
Prohibition
Stock Market
New Deal
Flapper
A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
New Deal
Prohibition
drought
Great Depression
A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry.
Evict
Drought
Prairie
Dust Bowl
