Great Depression Quiz

Question 1

Great Depression

Answer 1

Severe economic crisis

Question 2

Stock Market crash

Answer 2

Official beginning of the Great Depression

Question 3

Hooverville’s

Answer 3

Unemployed men

Question 4

Herbert Hoover

Answer 4

Us president at the beginning of the depression

Question 5

First things that Franklin D. Roosevelt did

Answer 5

1- Emergency Bank act: to stabilize the banks
2- Roosevelt encouraged people to put their money back in the bank
3- Programs

Question 6

FDIC

Answer 6

(Federal deposit insurance corporation) = Money in protected

Question 7

Fireside Chats

Answer 7

Roosevelt talked with the people in the radio

Question 8

Brain Trust

Answer 8

Businessmen

Question 9

New Deal

Answer 9

Federal economic programs

Question 10

3 R’s

Answer 10

-Relief
-Reform
-Recovery

Question 11

Public Works program

Answer 11

JOBS ($5 a month)

Question 12

Social Security Program

Answer 12

Money for people retirement

Question 13

The Dust Bowl: 1930’s

Answer 13

Worst drought in the American History (1930 - 1936)

Question 14

“Okies”

Answer 14

People who migrated to California

Question 15

Hobo: “Riding the rails”

Answer 15

Migratory worker

Question 16

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 16

Democrat

Question 17

Causes of the Great Depression

Answer 17

1- unequal distribution of wealth
2- overproduction in industry
3-High Tariffs
4-easy credit
5-stock market crash (Black Tuesday)

Question 18

Facts about the Great Depression

Answer 18

1- 25% was unemployment
2- 50% banks closed
3- 40% of business closed

Question 19

Major programs

Answer 19

1- Public Works program: JOBS - 5$ a month
2- Social Security Program: money for people retirement