WorksheetsGreat Depression Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who was an African American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics?
Duke Ellington
Jesse Owens
Herbert Hoover
Margaret Mitchell
Who is an African American musician, composer, and bandleader during the 'Swing Era'?
Jesse Owens
Duke Ellington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Margaret Mitchell
Who wrote the book 'Gone With The Wind'?
Herbert Hoover
Margaret Mitchell
Duke Ellington
Jesse Owens
Who was the president at the beginning of the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
Margaret Mitchell
Duke Ellington
Jesse Owens
Who was elected as president in 1932 and made promises to pull America out of the Great Depression with his 'New Deal'?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jesse Owens
Margaret Mitchell
Duke Ellington
When did the Stock Market Crash, also known as Black Tuesday, happen?
December 1929
November 1929
October 1929
September 1929
What event started the Great Depression?
The New Deal
The Roaring Twenties
The Dust Bowl
The Stock Market Crash
What caused many people to lose their money and jobs during the Great Depression?
The Roaring Twenties
The Stock Market Crash
The New Deal
The Dust Bowl
What were Hoovervilles?
Charity organizations
Bread lines
Soup kitchens
Makeshift homeless communities
What were soup kitchens during the Great Depression?
Charity organizations that provided food to the homeless
Government programs that created jobs
Organizations that helped farmers
Makeshift homeless communities
What was the Dust Bowl?
A series of earthquakes
A severe drought in the Great Plains
A volcanic eruption
A hurricane
What did the Dust Bowl cause?
Loss of homes
Ruined crops
Destroyed farms
All of the above
What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA) part of?
The Stock Market Crash
The New Deal
The Dust Bowl
The Roaring Twenties
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) part of?
The Dust Bowl
The Roaring Twenties
The New Deal
The Stock Market Crash
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) part of?
The Roaring Twenties
The Stock Market Crash
The New Deal
The Dust Bowl
