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SOL 6d The Great Depression
SOL 6d The Great Depression
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1
Using the graph, approximately how many banks closed down (went out of business) in 1933?
3000
4500
1500
4000
2
The stock market crash of October, 1929 signaled the beginning of the _____.
Prohibition
Great Migration
Roaring '20s
Great Depression
3
Another term to describe the Stock Market Crash of October, 1929 is ___.
Super Bowl Sunday
Throw back Thursday
Blue Monday
Black Tuesday
4
The Great Depression added to the Dust Bowl indicates that ____ were hardest hit economically.
Bankers
Farmers
Government Employees
Factory Owners
5
Using the graph, what percentage of Americans are unemployed in 1931?
15%
5%
20%
10%
6
The President of the United States at the beginning of the Great Depression was ___.
William H. Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
7
What fact about the Great Depression is highlighted by the attached billboard sign?
Stock Market Crash
Bankruptcy
Farm Foreclosure
Unemployment
8
Which of the following describes a cause of the Great Depression in America?
Ppl. over speculated on stocks, used borrowed money (credit)
Farmers' incomes fell to low levels
A large number of banks and businesses failed
One fourth (25%) of workers were unemployed
9
The term used to describe this type of "neighborhood" during the Great Depression is _____.
tenements
reservations
ghettoes
hoovervilles
10
A place where food was provided during the Great Depression to the needy at little to no cost.
Hooverville
Soup kitchen
Doughnut shop
Starbucks
11
According to the graph, in what century did the Great Depression take place?
18th C.
19th C.
20th C.
21st C.
12
Which of the following is NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
The Fed'l Reserve didn't stop the failure of the bank system
People over speculated on stocks, used credit, creating debt
High tariffs discouraged international trade
Large numbers of people were hungry and homeless
13
Using the graph, in which year did unemployment reach its peak during the Great Depression?
1935
1933
1932
1934
14
The pink area on the graph indicates what time period in US history?
Prohibition
Reconstruction
the Great Depression
World War One
15
True/False. The Great Depression had a widespread and severe impact on American life.
True
False
16
The middle part of the United States suffered a sever drought during the 1930s known as the __.
Dust bowl
Super bowl
Soup bowl
Cereal bowl
17
Which of the following is an effect of the Great Depression?
People used credit to make purchases & couldn't pay it back
The Fed'l Reserve didn't stop the failure of the bank system
A large number of people were hungry and homeless.
Optimism of the 1920s hid problems in the US economy.