Great Depression and the 1930's

Question 1

Who was the famous Atlanta author who wrote Gone with the Wind

Accepted Answer

Margaret Mitchell

Question 2

This jobs program provided jobs for young men to work in the National Forests

Accepted Answer

CCC

Question 3

President Roosevelt offered new programs to help people recover from the Great Depression called ___

Accepted Answer

The New Deal

Question 4

In the 1930's people listened to a new kind of music called ______

Accepted Answer

Swing

Question 5

This musician was named the King of Swing

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington

Question 6

Famous African American athlete won 4 gold medals in track and field events in Berlin Olympics

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

Question 7

What was the event in Oct, 1929 that led many people to lose alot of money?

Accepted Answer

Stock Market Crash

Question 8

The program that provided jobs to workers to build dams in the state of Tennessee.

Accepted Answer

TVA

Question 9

Farmers were hid hard during the Great Depression because of the __________

Accepted Answer

Dust Bowl

Question 10

People renamed the concentration of shanties to ______.

Accepted Answer

Hoovervilles

Question 11

What was the name of the makeshift homes that people lived in during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

shanties

Question 12

What caused the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

drought

Question 13

What caused the Stock Market to crash?

Accepted Answer

people borrowed too much money

Question 14

Who helped feed jobless and homeless people during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Soup Kitchens

Question 15

Who was the President during the beginning of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Hoover

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