Pulsecheck review: Great Depression

What caused the Dust Bowl?

• Poor farming practices and drought

• The stock market crash

• Too many jobs

• The New Deal

What was one goal of the New Deal programs?

• To build shantytowns

• To fix the economy and create jobs

• To help start the stock market crash

• To make farmers move

Which president created the New Deal programs?

• Herbert Hoover

• Abraham Lincoln

• Franklin Roosevelt

• George Washington

How did Duke Ellington’s music reach many people?

• Through TV

• Through the internet

• On the radio

• In books

Who wrote Gone with the Wind?

• Duke Ellington

• Margaret Mitchell

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Eleanor Roosevelt

Why was Duke Ellington important during the Great Depression?

• He was a famous jazz musician who shared his music on the radio. This helped raise awareness for African American culture at the time.

• He wrote Gone with the Wind.

• He helped build Hoovervilles.

• He started the New Deal.

What event started the Great Depression?

• The Dust Bowl

• The Civil War

• The stock market crash of 1929

• The election of Franklin Roosevelt

What happened to farmers during the Dust Bowl?

• They made more money.

• They had to leave their farms and couldn’t grow crops.

• They moved to Hoovervilles.

• They worked in factories.

What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?

• A program to help farmers leave their land.

• A New Deal program to give young men jobs in parks and planting trees.

• A group that built shantytowns.

• A program that closed schools.

Why were shantytowns called “Hoovervilles”?

• They were built by Herbert Hoover.

• People blamed President Hoover for not helping during the Great Depression.

• They were named after a famous town.

• They were built by Franklin Roosevelt.