5 Written Questions

1. track star who was the grandson of a slave who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.
2. electricity produced by moving water.
3. Unemployment and debt increased. Suffering people depended on charity.
4. a map that shows where people live.
5. Civilian Conservation Corps - create jobs and protect natural environment. Workers planted trees and created hiking trails.

5 Matching Questions

1. charity
2. Eleanor Roosevelt
3. TVA
4. depression
5. Duke Ellington

1. a an organization that helps people in need.
2. b jazz composer and musician of the Harlem Renaissance.
3. c Tennessee Valley Authority - hired people to build dams on the Tennessee River. Drams created hydroelectricity in rural areas in the Southeast.
4. d period when many people can't find work and many others have no money to keep businesses going.
5. e found for rights of women, children and African Americans; wife of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. 31st President of the United States
   1. regulation
   2. Herbert Hoover
   3. debt
   4. Jesse Owens
2. the number of people without a job
   1. Jesse Owens
   2. debt
   3. unemployment
   4. regulation
3. writer from Atlanta, Ga who wrote "Gone With the Wind", which was made into a movie in 1939.
   1. charity
   2. Herbert Hoover
   3. Eleanor Roosevelt
   4. Margaret Mitchell
4. 32nd President of the United States
   1. unemployment
   2. Eleanor Roosevelt
   3. Herbert Hoover
   4. Franklin Roosevelt
5. the least amount a worker in most types of jobs can legally be paid.
   1. TVA
   2. minimum wage
   3. regulation
   4. WPA

5 True/False Questions

1. social security → an organization that helps people in need.

   True        False

2. How did Hoover handle the problems facing Americans during the Great Depression? → Federal government should affect the economy to end the Great Depression. Created government programs to help suffering people.

   True        False

3. How did Roosevelt handle the problems facing Americans during the Great Depression? → Federal government should not affect the economy to end the Great Depression. Gave money to banks and business, but did not help people.

   True        False

4. debt → Civilian Conservation Corps - create jobs and protect natural environment. Workers planted trees and created hiking trails.

   True        False

5. What was the Dust Bowl and how did it affect farmers? → Stock market crash in October 1929.

   True        False