(ch5/ L4) Impact of the Great Depression

During the Great Depression, many Americans were ___ and homeless.

• wealthy
• farmers
• bankers
• hungry

During the Great Depression, many Americans were hungry and ____.

• wealthy
• farmers
• homeless
• hungry

Which group's income fell to low levels during the Great Depression?

• police
• bankers
• farmers
• teachers

Many ___ and other businesses closed or failed during the Great Depression.

• banks
• hospitals
• schools
• radio stations

Many banks and other businesses closed or ___ during the Great Depression.

• opened
• failed
• profits
• tariffs

___% of workers did not have jobs at the peak the Great Depression.

• 4%
• 12%
• 15%
• 25%

1/4 of workers were ___ during the Great Depression.

• unemployed
• farmers
• working
• migrant

When a person who wants work cannot find a job, they are ____.

• employed
• unemployed
• migrant
• busy

Workers who moved from place to place, to wherever they could find work.

• employed
• unemployed
• migrant
• busy

For African Americans, the effects of the Great Depression

• were even worse than for white Americans.

• were about the same as the effects on white Americans.

• were not as bad as the effects on white Americans.

• did not affect their lives very much.

Answer explanation

“The Great Depression of the 1930s worsened the already bleak economic situation of African Americans. They were the first to be laid off from their jobs, and they suffered from an unemployment rate two to three times that of whites." (Britannica)