Stock Market Crash
In what year did the Stock Market Crash that started the Great Depression occur?
(1929)
What name was given to the makeshift communities of homeless people during the Great Depression?
(Hoovervilles)
Who was the President of the U.S. when the Great Depression started?
(Herbert Hoover)
What was the New Deal?
(A plan to help the economy recover)
Black Tuesday, Bank Run, Hoovervilles, Titanic
(Titanic)
What was the nickname for the day the stock market crashed?
(Black Tuesday)
What natural disaster made farming very difficult during the Great Depression?
(The Dust Bowl)
Who was elected President in 1932 and created the New Deal?
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
What program gave unemployed people jobs working on parks and roads?
(The Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC)
Dust Bowl, Farmers, New Deal, Moon Landing
(Moon Landing)
True or False: The Stock Market Crash was the only cause of the Great Depression.
(False)
What did many people do when they lost their jobs and homes?
(Traveled to find work)
What was the name of Roosevelt’s radio speeches that comforted Americans?
(Fireside Chats)
What program helped bring electricity to rural areas?
(Rural Electrification Act of 1936)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Social Security, George Washington
(George Washington)
What happens when people rush to take their money out of banks, causing banks to fail?
(A bank run)
What happened to many banks during the Great Depression?
(They failed and closed)
What famous African American track star rose to fame during the 1930s?
(Jesse Owens)
What program provided retirement payments to elderly Americans?
(Social Security)
Fireside Chats, Stock Market Crash, Television, WPA
(Television)
What is it called when stock prices drop rapidly, and people panic-sell their stocks?
(A market crash)
What was the name of the large migration of farmers from the Great Plains to California?
(The Okie migration)
Who was the famous First Lady who spoke out for the rights of women and African Americans?
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
What New Deal program built large public projects like dams and bridges?
(Works Progress Administration, or WPA)
The Great Depression, The Civil War, The New Deal, The Dust Bowl
(The Civil War)