Great Depression, New Deal

Question 1

Americans voted for this man during the Great Depression

Accepted Answer

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 2

What event happened in 1929 that signaled the start of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

The stock market crashed.

Question 3

The TennesseeValleyAuthority (TVA) helped supply this resource to farmers in the Southeast?

Accepted Answer

Electricity

Question 4

Social security was a program that did this

Accepted Answer

Provided funds for elderly people who were unable to work

Question 5

Which of these would have been used MOST by Americans in the 1930s?

Accepted Answer

Radio

Question 6

Born in Atlanta in 1900, was a reporter and wrote Gone With the Wind is which author?

Accepted Answer

Margaret Mitchell

Question 7

Which of these contributed to the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

stock market speculation

Question 8

African-Americans created much fine art, music, dance and literature during this time

Accepted Answer

The Harlem Renaissance

Question 9

Margaret Mitchell is best known for her accomplishments in what area?

Accepted Answer

Literature

Question 10

What was the MAIN purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps?

Accepted Answer

Provided jobs for young unmarried men during the Depression.

Question 11

Why was the "New Deal" such a new concept for the United States government?

Accepted Answer

The Federal government became active in the nation's economy

Question 12

Born in 1913, won 4 Gold Medals at the Olympics & voted "Greatest Track Athlete of All Time"?

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

Question 13

Which statement is the MOST accurate about President Franklin D. Roosevelt?

Accepted Answer

He was very positive and offered hope to America.

Question 14

How did Jesse Owens help to raise morale in the United States during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

He won many gold medals for the U.S. at the 1936 Olympics

Question 15

Most of the New Deal legislation was designed to ________________.

Accepted Answer

deal with the nation’s economic problems

Question 16

From the mid-1930s to 1940 over 2.5 million people had moved out of the Great Plains. Why?

Accepted Answer

The Dust Bowl

Question 17

Overproduction in factories and by farmers, and the stock market crash were caused by this?

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression

Question 18

Margaret Mitchell was born in New York.

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 19

Duke Ellington is best known for this

Accepted Answer

Jazz music

Question 20

Which of these is the BEST description of "Hoovervilles"?

Accepted Answer

Shantytowns where homeless families lived in the GDepression

Question 21

Duke Ellington is remembered for his accomplishments in _________________.

Accepted Answer

jazz

Question 22

The CCC, TVA, and WPA were all part of ______________.

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt’s New Deal

Question 23

How did Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh change the face of American transportation?

Accepted Answer

People bought cars and were not afraid to fly.

Question 24

Gone With the Wind is a book about life on a southern plantation during the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 25

Which of these was an outcome of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

FDR's New Deal

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