The Great Depression: What You Need to Know

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• What happened that signaled the start of the American Great Depression?

  • The failure of three big banks

  • The stock market crash of 1929

  • The Dust Bowl

  • World War I

• What occurred in 1929 signaled the start of the stock market collapse?

  • The Great Dust Bowl

  • The start of World War II

  • Black Thursday

  • Red Tuesday

• At the height of the Great Depression, what was the unemployment rate in the United States?

  • 15%

  • 25%

  • 45%

  • 65%

• When the Great Depression first began, who was in office as president?

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • Herbert Hoover

• What did people call the makeshift neighborhoods that sprouted up across the United States when the Great Depression hit?

  • Hoovervilles

  • Migrant camps

  • Dust Bowl towns

  • Depression villages

• Who took over for Hoover as president in 1933?

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • Harry S. Truman

• Just after entering office in March of 1933, what was Roosevelt's first big initiative?

  • Making the New Deal

  • Raising Military Expenditures

  • Declaring a national bank holiday

  • Setting up employment-related programs

• How did the Great Depression impact business beyond national borders?

  • The effects on global trade were minimal

  • As a result, commercial alliances were formed

  • It caused a rise in the need for imports

  • As a result, trade activity dropped sharply

• Responding to the Great Depression, which American president instituted the New Deal?

  • Herbert Hoover

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Woodrow Wilson

• Which well-known book by John Steinbeck is most commonly linked to the Great Depression in the 1930s?

  • East of Eden

  • The Grapes of Wrath

  • The Sun Also Rises

  • Cannery Row

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