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Great Depression Questions - All Grades

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Grade 4 Great Depression
Dust storms and drought plagued a region known as the
  1. Louisiana Territory.
  2. Cattle Kingdom.
  3. Dust Bowl.
  4. Chisholm Trail
Grade 8 Great Depression
As part of The New Deal,Franklin Roosevelt created the CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps, for the purpose of
  1. Improving conditions in the slums
  2. putting young men to work to keep them out of trouble
  3. keeping an eye on the immigrant population
  4. shoring up the banking industry
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 11 Great Depression
Which New Deal Programs were deemed unconstitutional?
  1. AAA and CCC
  2. SEC and SSA
  3. SSA
  4. None of the above
Grade 8 Great Depression
The New Deal program that provided old-age insurance was the
  1. Tennessee Valley Authority
  2. Securities Exchange Act
  3. Social Security Act
  4. Civilian Conservation Corps.
Grade 12 Great Depression
Which of the following is not one of the four freedoms Franklin Roosevelt described and fought for during his term in office?
  1. Freedom from fear
  2. Freedom from want
  3. Freedom of equality
  4. Freedom of religion
  5. Freedom of speech
Grade 5 Great Depression
Who said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
  1. Calvin Coolidge
  2. Herbert Hoover
  3. Franklin D Roosevelt
  4. Adolf Hitler
Grade 11 Great Depression
Grade 11 Great Depression
Grade 8 Great Depression
By 1932, what percent of Americans were unemployed?
  1. 75%
  2. 50%
  3. 25%
  4. 100%
  5. none of the above
Grade 5 Great Depression
In the 1930's, the New Deal programs showed a belief that...
  1. governments shouldn't get involved with businesses
  2. state governments should give up commerce inside their states
  3. the Federal Government must concern itself with the people's economic well-being
  4. the United States Constitution was not relevant to 20th-century life
Grade 5 Great Depression
What is a Stock Market?
  1. A place where people can buy and sell produce
  2. A place where things are stocked
  3. A place where people can buy and sell shares of businesses
Grade 5 Great Depression
Grade 8 Great Depression
During the Great Depression of the 1930's, hundreds of banks closed because
  1. people could not pay back loans
  2. people stopped saving money
  3. people stopped trusting banks
  4. people spent all that they made
Grade 5 Great Depression
A major result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was
  1. a decline in the Federal deficit
  2. an increase of the power of the Federal Government
  3. a change in the voting rights of women
  4. returning of the gold standard for the United States currency
Grade 10 Great Depression
How did the U.S. government respond to the global depression in the 1930’s?
  1. Congress acted to reduce government regulations on financial institutions
  2. President Roosevelt implemented a massive government spending program
  3. The U.S. armed forces expanded rapidly to provide jobs for the unemployed
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