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The Great Depression and the New Deal Era: Multiple Choice
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- 01Which New Deal program was a federally owned corporation created to provide flood control, electricity generation, and economic development to a large region in the American South?
- 02The massive industrial and military mobilization for which major global event is largely credited with ending the Great Depression in the United States?
- 03What event on October 29, 1929, also known as "Black Tuesday," is widely considered the start of the Great Depression?
- 04Which New Deal agency employed millions of young, unmarried men on conservation projects like planting trees, building flood barriers, and fighting forest fires?
- 05The Social Security Act of 1935, a cornerstone of the New Deal, established a system for all of the following EXCEPT:
- 06The Banking Act of 1933 established which federal agency to provide deposit insurance to U.S. banks and restore public confidence in the banking system?
- 07President Franklin D. Roosevelt's series of programs, public work projects, and financial reforms to combat the Depression was collectively known as what?
- 08What were the shantytowns built by homeless people during the Depression derisively nicknamed after the president many blamed for their plight?
- 09What name was given to the period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s?
- 10Who was the U.S. President when the Great Depression began?