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1
Which notorious gangster opened a soup kitchen in Chicago?
Pretty Boy Floyd
Chef Boyardee
John Dillinger
Al Capone
2
What was the slang term used by Californians for the refugees escaping the Dust Bowl?
Okies
Rednecks
Dusties
Bowlers
3
Which of these was one cause of the dust bowl?
Farmers abused the topsoil and it blew away
a series of landslides caused a lot of dust
Everybody emptied their vacuum cleaner bags outside
Farmers were using human fertilizer instead of bovine
4
Which of the following statements best describes what happened on Black Tuesday?
Solar Eclipse
Stock Market crashed
Federal troops attacked the Bonus Army
The United States declared war on Japan
5
What was the Great Depression?
longest-lasting economic downturn in US history
The day everyone was very sad
large divot cut out of the ground by a golf club
Giant hole where meteorite that killed dinosaurs struck
6
Unemployment reached 25% for the United States during the Great Depression.
True
False
7
What president created the "New Deal" in an attempt to alleviate the Depression?
Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
8
Which of these was not an effect of the New Deal?
It expanded the power of the federal government
It laid the foundations of the welfare state.
It attracted new groups of voters into the Democratic Party.
It ended the Great Depression
9
What did people call the shanty towns, in which the homeless and poor people lived?
Roosevelt Acres
Tacoma Domes
Shilly Shacks
Hoovervilles
10
Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath", published in 1939?
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Shirley Temple
Jim Welch