Studies Weekly-The Great Depression_ Week 20 Question Preview (ID: 56405)


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The 1920s were called the Roaring Twenties.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

The ___ provided ways for people to keep their homes.
a) Social Security Act
b) Agricultural Act
c) Home Owners' Refinancing Act
d)

The ______ hire workers to build and improve Alabama State Parks.
a) Civilian Conservation Corps
b) Works Progress Administration
c) Tennessee Valley Authority
d)

The ____ helped farmers by paying them to plant fewer crops and raise fewer farm animals.
a) Social Security Act
b) Agricultural Adjustment Act
c) Home Owners Refinancing Act
d)

The ____ built dams to control flooding; generated electricity; and taught farmers new ways to plant and fertilize crops.
a) Civilian Conservation Corps
b) Works Progress Administration
c) Tennessee Valley Authority
d)

The day the stock market crashed was called
a) Black Wednesday
b) Terrible Tuesday
c) Black Tuesday
d)

The stock market crashed because
a) too many people tried to buy stocks at one time
b) the value of stocks fell to almost nothing
c) the value of stocks fell to almost nothing
d)

President Roosevelt asked Congress to start up programs to put people back to work during the Depression.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

Government programs that helped put people back to work during the Depression were called
a) New Deal
b) New Jobs
c) New Start
d)

Which of the following is NOT one of the causes of the Depression
a) Americans producing more goods than they could sell
b) foreign countries no longer buying American products
c) America lost a lot of workers who died in the war
d) the war years were over so there was no longer the need to send extra goods to troops

The stock market crashed on November 29, 1929.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

The social security act provided old age pensions for retired workers.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

The ____ employees built many public buildings, bridges, and schools in Alabama.
a) Civilian Conservation Corps
b) Works Progress Administration
c) Tennessee Valley Authority
d)

Soup kitchens were
a) places set up by the mayor of each town for people to pick up surplus foods
b) places set up by churches and agencies to feed people
c) places where people learned to make soup
d)

The Civilian Conservation Corps put young men to work building dams and widening the Tennesse River.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

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