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Test Description: Great Depression causes and effects
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The official beginning of the Great Depression was November 29, 1929, which is also known as:
A
Sad Saturday
B
Red Monday
C
Black Tuesday
D
Gray Thursday
2) A major cause of the Great Depression was:
A
Roosevelt being elected
B
the stock market crashing
C
the drought in the Great Plains
D
the Dust Bowl
3) One of the symptoms of the Great Depression was NOT:
A
business shut down or cut wages
B
prosperity for most people
C
mass unemployment
D
many banks closed
4) The U.S. President at the beginning of the Great Depression was:
A
Abraham Lincoln
B
Franklin D. Roosevelt
C
Ulysses S. Grant
D
Herbert Hoover
5) The New Deal was a program designed to
A
create public projects
B
all of the above
C
help homeless people
D
create jobs
6) The Dust Bowl worsened conditions in the US during the era of the Great Depression. The approximate location of the Dust Bowl was:
A
Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska. Colorado
B
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming
C
Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois
D
South and North Dakota, Wisconsin
7) People in the Dust Bowl made their living by:
A
getting rich in the stock market
B
struggling to farm
C
building railroads and dams
D
working long hours in a factory
8) Some people in the Dust Bowl areas couldn't make their farms succeed, so they:
A
grew new crops on their land
B
bought old farmhouses and started some Bed and Breakfast businesses
C
moved away
D
went on vacation
9) The President who led the U.S. through the Great Depression was:
A
Harry S. Truman
B
Herbert Hoover
C
Franklin D. Roosevelt
D
Abraham Lincoln
10) Which inventor was responsible for using peanuts in many ways?
A
Thomas Edison
B
George Washington Carver
C
Dwight D. Eisenhower
D
Marie Curie
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