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