Great Depression Review Quiz.

5. Why did topsoil turn to a fine layer of infertile dust in the Great Plains region of the United States?

12. How far east from the Great Plains did the dust storms reach?

17. FDR was a Republican.

8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a landslide victory in 1932 because Americans?

What were the reforms by Franklin Roosevelt aimed at bringing relief to people affected by the Great Depression called?

1. When do historians say the Great Depression began?

7. Shantytowns full of homeless people were known as what?

14. The effects of the Great Depression were limited to the United States.

11. The Social Security Act was designed to do what?

15. What is the day that the stock market crashed known as?

6. What was the climate/agricultural disaster in the Great Plains called?

13. What is a “Run on the Bank”?

20. Roosevelt's radio broadcasts to the American people telling them about how the country was doing was called?

2. All of the following were causes of the Great Depression except?

4. How did Herbert Hoover believe that the economy could be revived?

19. Which bill passed during the Second New Deal is considered one of the most important laws of the 20th century?

9. Who was the Catholic priest who had a radio broadcast, that was was accused of being anti-semitic?

18. Huey Long was a controversial and outspoken populist Democrat from which state?

3. The “Bonus Army” marched on Washington, D.C., to pressure Congress to?

16. How many New Deals were there?