Great Depression Quiz

The stock market crash of Oct. 29, 1929, caused the Great Depression.

Banking Crisis, 1930s (Image credit: UPI/THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE)

True

False

When people lost their homes during the Great Depression, they built shacks out of old crates and formed shantytowns. What were those shantytowns called?

Name this shantytown (Image credit: Corbis)

Depression towns

Roosevelt cities

Hoovervilles

Bust bowls

During the Great Depression, a period of tremendous wind erosion afflicted the Great Plains region, which became known as the Dust Bowl. What caused this condition?

A large number of homesteaders

Planting of wheat and row crops, and raising of cattle

Severe drought

All of the above

Poor white farmers evicted from their land or fleeing the Dust Bowl often headed for the West, especially California. But when they arrived, they frequently faced discrimination. What were they called?

Leaving the Dust Bowl (Image credit: Culver Pictures)

Okies

White trash

Hillbillies

Dust bunnies

Which of these classic works of fiction told the story of a Great Plains family who set out for California after their crops were destroyed in the Dust Bowl?

"Gone with the Wind"

"The Grapes of Wrath"

"The Jungle"

"Oklahoma!"

At the worst point of the Great Depression, how many Americans were unemployed?

Selling Apples in the Depression (Image credit: Culver Pictures)

1 million

5 million

10 million

15 million

What finally ended the Great Depression?

Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal"

World War II

An abundant harvest

The recovery of the stock market

Which of these tariffs, signed into law in 1930, established the highest average tariff in United States history?

Herbert Hoover (Image credit: Hulton Deutsch)

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

Hawley- Smoot Tariff

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

Underwood Tariff

One New Deal program paid farmers not to grow surplus crops.

True

False

How many American banks failed in the 1930s?

1,000

3,000

6,000

9,000