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The Great Depression Vocabulary-2021
Test Description: Great Depression
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The government paid farmers to plant less in hope of increasing crop prices
A
Agricultural Adjustment Act
B
Civilian Conservation Corps
C
Public Works Administration
D
Works Progress Administration
2) October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed; began the Great Depression
A
Black Thursday
B
Speculation Begins
C
World War I
D
Black Tuesday
3) Buying stocks and borrowing money from a bank or broker; if the money was not paid back, the bank would foreclose on possessions; everyday people could now buy stock; led to stock market crash because of overextension
A
Get Rich Quick
B
Buying on the Margin
C
Speculation
D
Stock Broker
4) New Deal program; hired unemployed men to work, cleaning up forests and planting trees
A
Tennessee Valley Authority
B
Civilian Conservation Corps
C
Public Works Administration
D
Works Progress Administration
5) Roosevelt's attempt to load the courts with justices who supported his policies; wanted to increase supreme court justices from 9 to 15
A
New Deal
B
Court Packing Scheme
C
Supreme Court Leveling
D
Constitutional Amendment
6) Poor farming practices and a severe drought led to horrible dust storms and left much of the southern Great Plains in despair
A
Dust Bowl
B
Agricultural Adjustment Act
C
New Deal
D
The Great Depression
7) Insured bank deposits so that people would not lose their savings in the event of a bank failure
A
Social Security Act
B
Speculation Funds
C
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
D
Security and Exchange Commisson
8) A national banking system, established in 1913, that controls the U.S. money supply and the availability of credit in the country
A
Bank of United States
B
Local and State Bank Act
C
U.S. Government First National Bank
D
Federal Reserve
9) Began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression; president during most of WWII
A
Woodrow Wilson
B
Harry Truman
C
Herbert Hoover
D
Franklin D. Roosevelt
10) 1929-1939; the dramatic decline in the world's economy; millions of people lost their jobs as banks and businesses closed around the world
A
The Great Depression
B
Roaring Twenties
C
Stock Market Crash
D
Bank Failures of the 1930s
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