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1
What was popular in the Great Depression to keep them entertained?
Rodeo
Talk with each other
Playing football
Play cards
2
What did homeless people do?
Camped on the lawn
Nothing
Begged for money
Sat on the side of the road
3
On Black Tuesday how much money was lost?
$50 thoudand
$14 billion
$27 thousand
$10 thousand
4
How many years did the Depression last?
15
5
2
10
5
What did people sell to earn money?
Watermelon
pears
Potatoes
Apples
6
What became a part of life?
Writing
Dancing
Crime
Killing
7
Who was the U.S. President when the Great Depression BEGAN?
Harry S. Truman
Herbert Hoover
Abe Lincoln
Franklin D. Rooselvelt
8
True or False: the Great Depression didn't happen over night?
False
True
Both
9
How did they save food?
Left enough for the whole year
They shared with others
Planted fruit trees
Canned food
10
In during the dust bowl people had to where masks so they wouldn't breathe in dust and wind.
True
False
11
What amendment was passed induring the Great depression?
14th
21st
19th
18th
12
True or False president rosevet was re-elected in 1936.
False
True
13
Many people lived in little rows of shacks. What nickname was given to them?
nestles
Hoovervilles
Shackles
Domes
14
What was RooseveltS first radio chat about the banks called.
The recession
Fireside
The banking crisis
15
What year did the Depression end?
1940
1950
1930
1941
16
True or False: the Great depression only happened to the poor?
True
False
17
What happened when workers marched on Detroit?
Foreign workers were deported
Fights
Riots
Arrests
18
What game came out in 1935
Life
Battleship
Blokus
Monopoly
19
how much did the sell apples for?
60 cents
1 dollar
2 dollars
5 cents
20
How many people moved to California?
7 million
2 thousand
200,000
7 people
21
How many people lost their jobs?
127 people
Over 12 million
Over 200
7 billion
22
What term came in the Great Depression?
Poor fool
The American dream
I hate my life
Skid row
23
What year did the Depression start?
1914
1929
1935
1900
24
What was a name of a market crash?
The Great Crash
Black Thursday
Black Tuesday
25
What was a quote From the Depression that people said?
Who will help me get a job I don't want charity.
"I have no fear of another comparable decline."
Brother, can you spare a dime?
I see no reason why 1931 should not be a extremely good year
26
How did people commit suicide?
Jumping out windows
Shooting
Staving
Hanging
27
True or False: being poor was commons so being poor was "normal"?
False
True
28
How much money did congress lend to banks in the reconstruction of the Depression?
$2 billion
$90,000
$29,000
$3,000
29
how many men abandoned their families?
1.5 million
100
3 thousand
5 thousand
30
What's swept the investing classes of America?
Panic
Poverty
Suicide and despair
31
True or False: the us didnt sell mint nickels in 1932?
False
True
32
How many people tried to sell apples to support themselves?
6000 people
7 million people
2000 people
20 thousand people
33
What's was the biggest lesson they learned?
Wear it out
Use it up
or do without
Make do
34
Where was one of the biggest Hoovervilles?
Tennessee
Mexico
St. Louis
California
35
What ended the Depression?
WW11
The civil war
Mexican-American war
WW1
36
When did the stock market crash occur?
September, 1927
October, 1929
November, 1929
July, 1928
37
True or False Was there a drought in during the depressio?
True
False
38
What's started the Great Depression?
Money
Taxs
The market crashed and bad banking.
Government
39
What did they use to pull broken cars?
Mules
Dogs
Horses
Cows
40
What became widely used because buttons became too expensive?
Nothing
Zippers
Glue
Velcrow
