Some sample questions from this category:
* From 1930 to 1933 industrial stock fell by how much?
* Regions that got hit by severe drought and dust storms were called what?
* When did the stock market crash occur?
* All of these were causes for the Great Depression *except* for one. Which?
* Which one of these writers was known for writing books set during the Depression?
* Which of these was President during the early years of the Depression?
* As soon as he was in office, FDR immediately launched an economic program to try to boost the US economy and to give hope to discouraged Americans. What was this?
* Which of these was one cause of the dust bowl?
* What was the name of the president who created the "New Deal"?
* What did people call the shanty towns, in which the hobos and poor people lived?
* In Indianapolis, Ill., what were their shanty towns called?
* Which notorious gangster opened a soup kitchen in Chicago?
* What other country faced a particularly severe depression about the same time as America?
* Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath", published in 1939?
* The game "Monopoly" was on the market in what year?
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