Great Depression

President during the 1930s who was considered a failure because he couldn't fix the Great Depression.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Margaret Mitchell
• Jessie Owens

Famous African American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin

• Louis Armstrong
• Langston Hughes
• Jesse Owens
• Duke Ellington

The president who promised the people a "New Deal" during the Great Depression.

• Jesse Owens
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• George Washington

Famous Jazz musician of the 1930s

• Duke Ellington
• Jessie Owens

What role do banks have in  the economy? 

• They provide loans to people who need money and help people invest money in stocks.
• They tax customers to pay for new programs.
• They decide how everyone should spend their money.
• They do not play a role in the economy.

Which of the following is the government's role in the economy? 

• Providing stocks to people who need to invest. 
• The  main provider of loans to people who want to buy homes.
• Giving interest to people who put their money into savings accounts. 
• Building roads, schools, hospitals, and more with tax money.

Which of the following was NOT a problem facing the United States from 1929-1939.

• Many banks were closing because they ran out of money.
• The economy struggled because of all the money that had been  spent fighting in Europe.
• A drought hit the U.S. for several years causing many farmers' crops to fail.
• The stock market crashed causing people to lose millions and businesses to struggle.

Bob lived during a time when there were large dust storms and no rain for weeks or months at a time.  This was known as the

• Great Recession
• TVA
• Dust Bowl
• CCC

Which technological advance in the 1920s and 1930s caused over farming and the destruction of many farms when a drought hit?

• tractors
• contour farming
• plow
• windbreaks

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
• Unemployment decreased gradually.
• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
• Hoover was re-elected as president.