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Great Depression Test Review
Great Depression Test Review
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This is a review for the 6th grade Great Depression test.
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1
During the Great Depression, did many people lose their homes and farms?
NO
YES
2
Which were two factors of the Great Depression coming to an end?
World War II and the New Deal Programs
World War I and the Old Deal Programs
Dust Bowl and the PA Lottery
3
Was the stock Market crash in October of 1929 one of the causes of the Great Depression?
Yes
No
4
These were shanty towns where homeless families lived.
Hoovervilles
Shantyvilles
Hoovertowns
Homelessburgs
5
The jackrabbits they killed were called...
Roosevelt rabbits
Hoover Hogs
Road kill
Hoover hoppers
6
Did Roosevelt win his second election in 1936 by a narrow margin or a landslide?
narrow margin
landslide
7
Unemployment was usually 5%. In 1932, the number of workers without jobs reached _______
25%
10%
50%
100%
8
When Roosevelt was elected 1932, did he have plans to help the country out of the Depression?
Yes
No
9
Which did NOT cause the Dust Bowl disaster in the Plains states during the 1930s
cutting trees
no rain
planting the same crop over and over
too much precipitation
10
What was Franklin Roosevelt stricken with as a young man from which he never fully recovered?
Chicken Pox
Polio
Mumps
Malaria
11
At the beginning of the Great Depression, people blamed the President of the U.S. named ____
George Washington
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Barack Obama
12
What did the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) do to help?
Held parades and rallies to cheer people up
Fought battles in Africa
Put needy, unemployed young men to work in forests & parks
13
Do banks and businesses do well during a depression?
Yes
No
14
What was Social Security designed to do?
Provide guards for our protection
give everyone enough money so they feel secure
give the government money that they will never repay
assure older Americans would have money when they needed it
15
Newspapers that hobos would use to cover themselves in the park were called...
Hoover afghans
News covers
Roosevelt blankets
Hoover blankets
16
When the banks failed, were people still able to get their money out of their savings accounts?
Yes
No
17
Did the U.S. emerge quickly from the Great Depression after the first New Deal programs?
Yes
No
18
Banks closed, factories closed, homelessness, unemployment, lost savings were all ways...
The Great Depression negatively impacted the US citizens
The Great Depression positively impacted the US citizens
World War II began
19
People lined up for blocks outside of soup kitchens
hungerlines
soup lines
foodlines
breadlines
20
Roosevelt addressed the nation on the radio regularly - these were called
newsreels
Radio talks
Ted talks
fireside chats
21
Which president's wife was one of the most active first ladies the country has ever known?
Hillary Clinton
Michelle Obama
Eleanor Roosevelt
Martha Washington