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Great Depression Vocabulary Pre-Test

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the period of severe economic downturn in the United States during the 1930s?

a)

Roaring Twenties

b)

Great Depression

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

Cold War

2.

What term is used to describe the collapse of a bank due to its inability to meet financial obligations?

a)

Bankruptcy

b)

Bank Failure

c)

Bankruptcy

d)

Bank Default

3.

What is the term for a situation where a large number of people withdraw their money from a bank simultaneously?

a)

Bankruptcy

b)

Bank Failure

c)

Bank Run

d)

Bank Default

4.

Which legislation passed in 1930 raised tariffs on imported goods, leading to a decline in international trade?

a)

Smoot-Harley Tariff Act

b)

Sherman Antitrust Act

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Homestead Act

5.

What event in 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression?

a)

Stock Market Crash

b)

Gold Rush

c)

Boston Tea Party

d)

Declaration of Independence

6.

Area of the Great Plains that experienced huge dust storms during the Great Depression; the storms were a result of drought, high winds, and poor farming methods; as a result of the storms, many migrated to other areas of the country - ____________


a)
Dusty Plains
b)
Stormy Fields
c)
Dust Bowl
d)
Dryland Disaster
7.
  1. (1895–1965), US photographer; She was known for her documentary photographs of the Great Depression, including “White Angel Breadline” (1932), and those of the Japanese American internment camps around 1942. Many of her later photo-essays were published in Life magazine -_________

a)
Dorothea Lange
b)
Edward Weston
c)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
d)
Ansel Adams
8.

A migrant agricultural worker from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave during the Depression of the 1930s; termed as a native from Oklahoma - ___________

a)
Texan
b)
Californian
c)
Floridian
d)
Okie
9.

Methods of feeding the neediest people in the country during the Great Depression; set up as places where the poor could eat free or cheap food - ______________

a)

soup kitchens or bread lines

b)
Homeless shelters
c)
Food banks
d)
Charity organizations
10.

What was called the Lame Duck Amendment -___________

a)

16th Amendment

b)

20th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

11.

The stock market crashed on October 29, 1929. What is this day called?

a)

Black Friday

b)

Black Tuesday

c)

Black Crash

d)

Crash Day

12.

Unemployed WWI veterans who went to Washington to seek early payment of their military bonus money -___________

a)
Bonus Army
b)
Veteran Army
c)
Bonus Brigade
d)
Soldier Coalition
13.

Republican president from 1929 - 1933; blamed for the Great Depression - _________

a)
Herbert Hoover
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Calvin Coolidge
d)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
14.

Crudely built camps usually on the edge of town that acted as shelter or encampments for those who had lost their jobs and homes - _________

a)
Shantytowns
b)
Tent cities
c)
Squatter settlements
d)
Hoovervilles
15.

Shortened the time between the November elections and inauguration of the new president; eliminated the opening December session of Congress - ____________

a)
18th Amendment
b)
22nd Amendment
c)
20th Amendment
d)
25th Amendment
16.

The Dust Bowl happened on April 14, 1935. What is this day called?

a)

Dust Day

b)

Black Sunday

c)

Black Friday

d)

Black Tuesday

17.

Repealed the 18th Amendment to reverse prohibition - ___________

a)
19th Amendment
b)
20th Amendment
c)
21st Amendment
d)
22nd Amendment
18.

Time period when banks are closed for business; in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) declared a four-day holiday during which time banks were inspected and only the good ones were allowed to reopen - __________

a)
Bank vacation
b)
Bank holiday
c)
Bank shutdown
d)
Bank closure
19.

Radio addresses by FDR to explain and gather support for his New Deal proposals - _________

a)

fireside chats

b)

living room chats

c)

news broadcast

d)

radio chats

20.

Total market value of all finished goods and services produced within a country's borders - ___________

a)
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
b)
Net Domestic Product (NDP)
c)
Gross National Product (GNP)
d)
Net National Product (NNP)
21.

The flurry of New Deal legislation passed in the first 100 days of FDR's presidency - _______

a)

New Deal Legislation

b)
Second New Deal
c)

First New Deal

d)

Hundred Days

22.

Programs implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in an attempt to end the Great Depression - ________

a)
Fair Deal
b)
New Deal
c)
Square Deal
d)
Great Society
23.

Democratic president elected in 1932; elected president in four consecutive elections - ________

a)
John F. Kennedy
b)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
c)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
d)
Harry S. Truman
24.

The government practice of spending more money than is collected from taxes and other sources -_______

a)
balanced spending
b)
excess spending
c)
deficit spending
d)
surplus spending
25.

The idea that the government should spend money during a recession to stimulate the economy even if the government has to borrow the money and repay it when the economy improves - ______

a)
monetary policy
b)
austerity measures
c)
deficit spending
d)

Keynesian economics

26.

Additional slowdown in the economy in 1938 caused when the president decreased spending on relief programs - _________

a)

Great Depression Phase II

b)

Roosevelt Recession

c)

Uncle Sam's Recession

d)

The Slowdown of 1938

27.

A union that split from the AFL to represent unskilled workers in various industries - ________

a)

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

b)

American Federation of Labor (AFL)-IO

c)
AFL
d)
AFL-CIO
28.

Legislation proposed by FDR to add more justices (those who would be more favorable to his New Deal legislation) to the Supreme Court - ______

a)

Court-packing Bill

b)
Supreme Court enlargement
c)
Court-stuffing scheme
d)
Judicial expansion
29.

The agency created to bring electricity to rural areas of the country - ________

a)
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
b)
Rural Electrification Corporation (REC)
c)
Rural Utilities Service (RUS)
d)
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
30.

Additional New Deal legislation beginning in 1935 and aimed more toward reform - _______

a)
First New Deal
b)
Third New Deal
c)
Fourth New Deal
d)
Second New Deal
31.

A strike where workers sit down and occupy the factory rather than walking out to man picket lines - _______

a)
sit-down strike
b)
protest strike
c)
stand-up strike
d)
occupational strike