Review Game Zone
Flash Cards
(current)
Games
Teachers
Search
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
Civilian Conservation Corps
B
Works Progress Administration
C
Agricultural Adjustment Act
D
Public Works Administration
2) October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed; began the Great Depression
A
Black Tuesday
B
World War I
C
Speculation Begins
D
Black Thursday
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
Speculation
B
Stock Broker
C
Get Rich Quick
D
Buying on the Margin
4) New Deal program; hired unemployed men to work, cleaning up forests and planting trees
A
Civilian Conservation Corps
B
Works Progress Administration
C
Tennessee Valley Authority
D
Public Works 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
Court Packing Scheme
B
Supreme Court Leveling
C
New Deal
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
Agricultural Adjustment Act
B
The Great Depression
C
Dust Bowl
D
New Deal
7) Insured bank deposits so that people would not lose their savings in the event of a bank failure
A
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
B
Security and Exchange Commisson
C
Speculation Funds
D
Social Security Act
8) A national banking system, established in 1913, that controls the U.S. money supply and the availability of credit in the country
A
Local and State Bank Act
B
Federal Reserve
C
Bank of United States
D
U.S. Government First National Bank
9) Began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression; president during most of WWII
A
Herbert Hoover
B
Harry Truman
C
Woodrow Wilson
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
Bank Failures of the 1930s
B
The Great Depression
C
Stock Market Crash
D
Roaring Twenties
*select an answer for all questions
Check Results & Get Answers
Play Games with the Questions Above
Teachers: Create FREE classroom games with your questions
Click for more info!
©2007-2024
ReviewGameZone.com
|
About
|
Privacy
|
Contact
|
Terms
|
Site Map
WAIT! Find what you needed?
×
Still Looking for the Answers?
Have Another Question?
Play a Review Game with These Questions?
Want to Make Your Own Test Like This One?