Stock Market Crash
Life During the Depression
Famous People
New Deal Programs
Odd One Out
100

In what year did the Stock Market Crash that started the Great Depression occur?

(1929)

100

What name was given to the makeshift communities of homeless people during the Great Depression?

(Hoovervilles)

100

Who was the President of the U.S. when the Great Depression started?

(Herbert Hoover)

100

What was the New Deal?  

(A plan to help the economy recover)

100

Black Tuesday, Bank Run, Hoovervilles, Titanic

(Titanic)

200

What was the nickname for the day the stock market crashed?

(Black Tuesday)

200

What natural disaster made farming very difficult during the Great Depression?

(The Dust Bowl)

200

Who was elected President in 1932 and created the New Deal?

(Franklin D. Roosevelt)

200

What program gave unemployed people jobs working on parks and roads?

(The Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC)

200

Dust Bowl, Farmers, New Deal, Moon Landing

(Moon Landing)

300

True or False: The Stock Market Crash was the only cause of the Great Depression.

(False)

300

What did many people do when they lost their jobs and homes?

(Traveled to find work)

300

What was the name of Roosevelt’s radio speeches that comforted Americans?

(Fireside Chats)

300

What program helped bring electricity to rural areas?

(Rural Electrification Act of 1936)

300

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Social Security, George Washington

(George Washington)

400

What happens when people rush to take their money out of banks, causing banks to fail? 

(A bank run)

400

What happened to many banks during the Great Depression?

(They failed and closed)

400

What famous African American track star rose to fame during the 1930s?

(Jesse Owens)

400

What program provided retirement payments to elderly Americans?

(Social Security)

400

Fireside Chats, Stock Market Crash, Television, WPA

(Television)

500

What is it called when stock prices drop rapidly, and people panic-sell their stocks?

(A market crash)

500

What was the name of the large migration of farmers from the Great Plains to California?

(The Okie migration)

500

Who was the famous First Lady who spoke out for the rights of women and African Americans?

(Eleanor Roosevelt)

500

What New Deal program built large public projects like dams and bridges?

(Works Progress Administration, or WPA)

500

The Great Depression, The Civil War, The New Deal, The Dust Bowl

(The Civil War)

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