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Who was President at the beginning of the Great Depression?
a) Franklin Roosevelt
b) Herbert Hoover
c) Teddy Roosevelt
d) Woodrow Wilson

Which President believed that any government money should go to companies and not individuals?
a) Teddy Roosevelt
b) Franklin Roosevelt
c) Herbert Hoover
d) Calvin Coolidge

Which President's Plan was called the New Deal?
a) Herbert Hoover
b) Teddy Roosevelt
c) Franklin Roosevelt
d) Woodrow Wilson

The intent of the New Deal
a) A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage
b) equal distribution of wealth
c) relief, recovery and reform
d) soup kitchens

One cause of the Great Depression was
a) buying too much (including stocks) on credit
b) a surplus of crops and other agricultural goods
c) both of these
d) none of these

The Dust Bowl was a nickname for
a) a 10-year drought and environmental catastrophe the central US
b) poor people's food during the Depression
c) a game kids played during the Depression
d) cereal

The group of World War I veterans who demanded their payment from the government during the Depression were called
a) Hobos
b) Communistis
c) Bonus Army
d) Hoovervilles

President Hoover took this action to move the World War I veterans out of Washington, DC
a) paid them off
b) set up a camp for them at Fort Bragg, NC
c) locked the White House gates
d) ordered the army to attack and destroy their shanties

Orson Welles read a story on the radio about a Marian invasion of earth that caused a(n)
a) panic as people thought it was real
b) riot in New York City
c) government shut down
d) restriction to be placed on radio broadcasting

One of the forms of entertainment in the 1930s was
a) television
b) video games
c) board games
d) NASCAR

John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes Of Wrath which was about
a) soup kitchens
b) the Dust Bowl
c) Herbert Hoover
d) the stock market crash

One of the improvements in movies in the 1930s is that they all had
a) color
b) animation
c) sound
d) heroes

Alphabet Soup was a nickname for
a) the soup received from the churches
b) the dust in the houses from the dust storms
c) a popular game of the 1930s
d) the programs started by FDR in his New Deal

Hobos were people who
a) rode the trains illegally to try to move around the country to find work
b) set up a Hooverville in Washington, DC to call attention to poor
c) sold their children to try to find them a better life
d) disliked Franklin Roosevelt

One of the things President Roosevelt did in his first 100 days was
a) try to add more people to the Supreme Court
b) get the US involved in World War II
c) close the banks and only reopen those that had not loaned out all of their deposits
d) open more soup kitchens

Programs started by President Roosevelt
a) gave jobs to people from the government
b) are still around today
c) attempted to restart the economy
d) all of these

Fireside Chats were the name given to
a) a board game of the 1930s
b) a Monopoly space
c) talks that the President gave on the radio
d) meetings by workers who were trying to form unions

Workers in the 1930s tried to form unions to
a) cause riots
b) improve wages and working conditions
c) get more money from the government
d) stop communism

Many people disliked immigrants in the 1930s because they felt they were
a) taking jobs from American citizens
b) bringing in un-American ideas
c) from different areas of Europe from most of the people already in the United States
d) all of these

The US economy started to recover toward the end of the 1930s because
a) all of FDR's ideas were working
b) Europe was in war and needed food and equipment
c) the Dust Bowl created a surpllus
d) banks were loaning more money to people to buy stocks

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