The Great Depression

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1. Which of these was one cause of the dust bowl? Farmers abused their topsoil, causing it to thin and blow away Farmers used the wrong fertilizers on their land People let their vaccum cleaner bags open to the air A series of landslides created a lot of dust

2. What was the name of the president who created the "New Deal"? Theodore Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt Ronald Reagan George Bush Sr.

3. What did people call the shanty towns, in which the hobos and poor people lived? Hoovervilles Washington Estates Rooseveltvilles Adamvilles

4. In Indianapolis, IN, what were the shanty towns called? Franklintown Danielstown Curtisvilles Hoovervilles

5. The entertainment industry enjoyed a boom during the Depression. True False

6. Both Dumbo and King Kong were created during the 1930s. True False

7. Which notorious gangster opened a soup kitchen in Chicago? Al Capone Fat Louie Kate Barlow Lamented Louise

8. What other country faced a particularly severe depression about the same time as America? Germany Canada Poland France

9. Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath", published in 1939? John Steinbeck Roald Dahl Lee Nelson Dr. Seuss/ Ted Geisel

10. The game "Monopoly" was on the market in what year? 1942 1938 1933 1935