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The Great Depression
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1
___ built bridges, roads, schools, airports, etc. & employed artists to paint murals.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Social Security Board
Works Progress Administration
2
Many people bought things on ___ & promised to pay for them later.
stock
debt
Stock Market
credit
3
___ employed thousands of young men to work in parks & forests.
Tennessee Valley Authority
Works Progress Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
4
The Stock Market Crash is often referred to as ___.
Black Friday
Black Monday
Black Sunday
Black Tuesday
5
___ built 50 dams along rivers in the South to prevent flooding.
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Dust Bowl
Tennessee Valley Authority
Agricultural Administration Administration
6
People who could not afford housing lived in ___.
Hooverville
government housing
shantytown
soup kitchens
7
The severe drought that hit The Great Plains is called ___.
The Migrant Worker Bowl
The Super Bowl
The Dust Bowl
The Soil Bowl
8
The condition of being out of work is called ___.
credit
unemployment
debt
shantytown
9
After The Dust Bowl, many farmers became ___.
maids
migrant farmers
doctors
teachers
10
Which of the following was NOT a problem in the U.S. economy?
oil & concrete suffering
food surplus
worker lay offs
supply surplus
11
New programs put into place to help the country recover was called The ___.
New Plan
New Invention
New Deal
New Aid
12
What eventually brought an end to The Great Depression?
The Civil War
WWII
WWI
The American Revolution
13
By 1933, ___ million people were out of work.
100
15
30
5
14
What president inherited The Great Depression?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Barack Obama
Herbert Hoover
15
The Stock Market crashed in ___.
1927
1933
1929
1925
16
Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash?
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Bill Clinton
Franklin D. Roosevelt
17
A place where stocks are bought & sold is called ___.
Stock House
Share Market
Share Exchange
Stock Market
18
___ provides monthly payments to the elderly and disabled.
Social Security Board
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tennessee Valley Authority
Works Progress Administration
19
___ helped farmers decrease production to raise crop prices.
Social Security Board
Tennessee Valley Authority
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Works Progress Administration
20
Money that is owed back is called ___.
stock
unemployment
credit
debt