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Grade 12 Great Depression
What politician from Louisiana opposed the New Deal?
  1. Huey Long
  2. George Wallace
  3. Bernard Shaw
Grade 6 Great Depression
What was the main factor in creating the Dust Bowl?
  1. Tornadoes
  2. Earthquakes
  3. Land misuse
  4. Drought
  5. Both C & D
Grade 10 Great Depression
Which industry was hit the hardest because during the Great Depression?
  1. Banking
  2. Automotive industry
  3. Clothing industry
  4. Agriculture
Grade 5 Great Depression
A lasting result of the New Deal in the United States has been the...
  1. reduction of the national debt
  2. control of stock prices by the Federal Government
  3. joint effort of business and labor to strengthen the Presidency
  4. the Federal Government taking greater responsibility for the nation's well-being
Grade 11 Great Depression
What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
  1. Protect goods from Americans
  2. Protect American Farmers and Mannufactures from foreign competition
  3. Hawley Smoot made a law do end abortion
  4. None of the above
Grade 4 Great Depression
Dust storms and drought plagued a region known as the
  1. Great Depression
  2. Cattle Kingdom
  3. Dust Bowl
  4. Chisholm Trail
Grade 8 Great Depression
Grade 5 Great Depression
An important cause of the Great Depression of the 1930's was that
  1. banks gave out too many loans
  2. American businesses were competing with foreign business
  3. industry strikes
  4. products were inexpensive
Grade 5 Great Depression
What did the banks do in the 1920s that wasn't very smart
  1. refused to lend money to people
  2. lent money only to rich people
  3. opened too many banks
  4. lent money to people who could not pay it back
Grade 8 Great Depression
What happened on October 29, 1929?
  1. panicked sellers sold millions of shares of stock
  2. over 800 banks closed
  3. Roosevelt created the New Deal
  4. the government placed tariffs on imported goods
  5. over 600 banks were invaded by joyful penguins
Grade 5 Great Depression
What was the New Deal?
  1. It allowed the purchase of New Mexico.
  2. It was a series of programs that gave more power to the courts.
  3. A series of social, economic, and governmental reforms
Grade 5 Great Depression
What was The Great Depression?
  1. A long, hard period where industries did not grow, and many people where out of work.
  2. When a great deal of people are depressed.
  3. A period where great depressions in the Earth started to appear.
Grade 9 Great Depression
When was the Stock market crash?
  1. 1929
  2. 1932
  3. 1945
  4. 1956
Grade 5 Great Depression
Who took most of the blame or criticism for the Great Depression
  1. Calvin Coolidge
  2. Herbert Hoover
  3. Franklin D Roosevelt
  4. Adolf Hitler
Grade 8 Great Depression
Grade 11 Great Depression

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Grade 8 Great Depression
What was the cause of many of the bank "runs" during the early 1930's?
  1. Banks were giving out free toasters so people had to RUN to the bank to get one before the bank ran out of toasters.
  2. Many Americans withdrew their money so they could play the lottery.
  3. People feared that the banks would fail, so they rushed to withdraw their money.
  4. People withdrew their money so they could give more money to charity.
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