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What was an environmental disaster that struck the Great Plains during the 1930s?
a) earthquakes
b) dust storms
c) hurricanes
d) volcanoes

What event is considered to be the start of the Great Depression?
a) Stock market crash of 1929
b) Immigration Act of 1924
c) FDR's 1932 presidential election
d) The end of WWI

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
a) Consumer Confidence Decreases
b) FDR's New Deal
c) Agricultural overproduction
d) Recession began in the late 1920s

What term is used for the movement of southern African Americans into northern cities for better jobs from 1915-1930?
a) Great Migration
b) Great Depression
c) Red Summer
d) Prohibition

One result of the New Deal was that Americans began to accept the idea that the federal government should:
a) Build dams
b) Educate America's children
c) End racial discrimination
d) Care for citizens in need

This was a uniquely American style of music that began in New Orleans and became very popular during the 1920s.
a) rock and roll
b) jazz
c) ragtime
d) hip hop

Which of the following was NOT a consumer good available in the 1920s
a) toasters
b) Model T
c) radios
d) televisions

What was the time period called during which the manufacture and sale of alcohol was illegal?
a) Depression
b) Abolition
c) Prohibition
d) Reconstruction

FDR's plan to bring the US out of the Great Depression.
a) World War II
b) Square Deal
c) Progressive Movement
d) New Deal

Which of the following New Deal programs taught farmers new methods in hopes of preventing another dust bowl?
a) Soil Conservation Service
b) Tennessee Valley Authority
c) Social Security Administration
d) Civilian Conservation Corps

Why were some New Deal programs called safety net programs?
a) they were intended to help the nation's neediest people
b) they were created to stop illegal immigration
c) they were intended to save the nation's economy
d) they were designed to capture communists

How did the New Deal change the role of the federal government?
a) It decreased the role of the federal government.
b) It increased the role of the federal government.
c) It eliminated the federal government.
d) It had no effect on the federal government.

Term used to describe modern women in the 1920s.
a) speakeasy
b) flapper
c) big cheese
d) gangster

Which of the following is true about the Great Depression?
a) It was the longest lasting economic depression in U.S. history.
b) It caused more immigrants to move to the U.S.
c) Herbert Hoover ended it.
d) FDR's New Deal ended it quickly.

A New Deal program that still exists today that provides money for elderly Americans.
a) Civilian Conservation Corps
b) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
c) Social Security Administration
d) Soil Conservation Service

Which of the following best describes the role of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
a) to protect bank deposits
b) to give food to people in need
c) to pay farmers to not grow certain crops
d) to build dams for flood control

What was the purpose of FDR's New Deal programs
a) to quickly end the Great Depression
b) to provide relief, recovery and reform
c) to prepare the US for WWII
d) to increase the role of the federal government

What nickname was given to shantytowns of unemployed and homeless people during the Great Depression?
a) Ghost Towns
b) Boomtowns
c) Speakeasies
d) Hoovervilles

What ended the Great Depression
a) Herbert Hoover's laissez-faire policies
b) FDR's New Deal
c) U.S. entry into WWII
d) The Stock Market Crash

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