The Great Depression: A Historical Overview
Explore the causes, effects, and key events of the Great Depression with this comprehensive Grade 7 social studies worksheet.
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The Great Depression: A Historical Overview
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your knowledge. For multiple choice, circle the correct letter. For fill-in-the-blanks, write your answer on the line provided. For short answer, write your response in the space provided.
1. What event is often considered the start of the Great Depression?
World War I
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The stock market crash of 1929
The invention of the automobile
2. During the Great Depression, many people lost their homes and lived in shantytowns known as .
3. President introduced the New Deal programs to help the country recover from the Depression.
4. Explain one major cause of the Great Depression.
5. The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
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False
Match each term with its definition.
6. Hoovervilles
a. President during the start of the Great Depression
7. Franklin D. Roosevelt
b. Shanty towns built by homeless people
8. New Deal
c. Programs designed to combat the Great Depression
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