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The Great Depression
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This Quiz! is based on the Georgia Standards of Excellence SS5H3, SS5E2, SS5E4
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1
What happened to banks after the stock market crashed in 1929?
Banks closed
Banks ran out of money.
People wanted their money out of the banks.
All of these answers are correct.
2
What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Provided assistance for the elderly and disabled.
Provided jobs to millions. Built and beautified facilities.
Created hydroelectric power using dams.
Regulated banks
3
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
Paid artists to paint murals.
Paid young men to work outdoors to prevent erosion
Provided benefits to the elderly and disabled.
Built roads and bridges
4
What was Jesse Owens famous for?
Being a famous jazz singer
Winning 4 gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in track
Writing poetry during the Harlem Renaissance.
Playing professional baseball
5
What were the
causes
of Dust Bowl?
drought, erosion, and poor farming techniques
crops were destroyed
livestock died
farmers lost their income
6
What was the New Deal?
A card game invented during the depression.
Hoover's plan to help with the depression
What it was called when the stock market improved.
FDR's plan to get the economy going again and create jobs.
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What was a soup kitchen?
Place set up by churches and charities to feed the poor
A new kind of restaurant in the 1930s
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Who was Duke Ellington?
A novelist in the 1930's
Competed in track and field in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
A baseball player
A famous jazz musician
9
What was Margaret Mitchell's greatest accomplishment?
She was the voice of Snow White
She wrote "Gone with the Wind" in 1936
She was a famous actress in the movie "Gone with the Wind"
She was a famous jazz singer
10
Why did people blame Herbert Hoover for the Great Depression?
He was the president during the depression.
He did not think it was the government's job to help people.
Both A and B
None of the above
11
What major event happened in 1932?
WWII began
The stock market crashed
The Great Depression began
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president
12
What were "Hoovervilles"?
Town where a vacuum cleaner factory was built.
Community of homeless people who built shanties to live in.
Camps set up by the CCC.
Herbert Hoover's hometown.
13
What event ended the Roaring Twenties in 1929?
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
The Dust Bowl
World War I
World War II
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What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Employed men to build dams to provide hydroelectric power
Planted trees to prevent erosion
Built public facilities
Law passed to regulate banks
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Why were people losing their jobs after the stock market crash and during the run on banks?
People were not spending, so many people were laid off.
People were spending lots of money.
People were late to work, so they were fired.
Many people were not doing their jobs well.
