Great Depression 1
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100
He was the United States president that gave "relief" to the people during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
After the stock market crash, people rushed to their banks causing this.
What is Banks closing down/Bank runs?
100
The purchase of a share of a company?
What is buying stock?
100
City that Margret Mitchell was native to.
What is Atlanta?
100
In what decade did the Great Depression mostly occur?
What are the 1930's?
200
Which term was used to the region of the American mid-west that suffered a devastating drought full of huge dirt storms during the 1930's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This event is often considered to be the starting point of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
200
Who Am I ?
FDR
200
True or False: The Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance were important events during the Great Depression.
What is false?
200
True or False. When the stock market crashed, many people couldn't pay back the money they had borrowed.
What is true?
300
He was a musician known for playing in "white-only" night clubs and leading a bad of white and black musicians. He played swing music.
Who is Duke Ellington?
300
True or False: A depression is a time when industry is booming and almost all people are employed.
What is false?
300
October 29, 1929 is also known as this.
What is Black Tuesday?
300
What is the name of the relief programs introduce by FDR during the Great Depression.
A) The Act of Relief
B) Relief Act
C) New Deal
D) Newton Deal
What is B) New Deal?
300
He was the United States president during the early years of the great depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
The unemployed and poor often lived in "shanty towns." They were often referred to as.
What are Hoovervilles?
400
This athlete won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
During the Great Depression, people would line up at ____________ to get food. These were normally run by charities.
What are soup kitchens/breadlines?
400
This major event followed the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
400
The famous image of a pea picker mother and her 2 children in the 1930s.
What is the Migrant Mother?
500
Empty pockets turned inside out
What are Hoover flags?
500
During the Great Depression many people struggled to afford:
A) Housing
B) Food
C) Luxury Items
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
500
He was the only U.S. President to serve 4 terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
500
President FDR's policies during the Great Depression shows his belief that?
A) The government should never become involved in the economy.
B) The government should step in and help in the economy.
C) The Great Depression was caused by labor union strikes.
D) None of the Above
B) The government should step in and help in the economy.
500
The name of the novel written by Margret Mitchell that highlighted the life of a wealthy plantation family before, during, and after the Civil War.
What is Gone with the Wind?