Grades 9–10 · American history
This quiz helps revise “The Great Depression and the New Deal” in American history for grades 9–10. It has 25 questions in five categories: The Great Crash, Hard Times, The Dust Bowl, The Hundred Days, The Second New Deal. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
In which year did the Wall Street stock market crash, marking the start of the Great Depression?
What dark weekday nickname was given to October 29, the worst single day of the stock market crash?
What practice involved purchasing…
In the gameWhat term describes panicking…
In the gameWhich 1930 law raised…
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What were long lines of people waiting outside charities for free meals, like the one pictured, called?
What sarcastic nickname was given to the makeshift shantytowns built by homeless Americans during the Great Depression?
Roughly what peak percentage…
In the gameWhat nickname was given…
In the gameWhich group of World…
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Which vast central US region was devastated by severe drought and giant dust storms during the 1930s?
What nickname, derived from a Plains state, was given to migrant farm families fleeing to California?
Which 1939 John Steinbeck…
In the gameWhich famous highway carried…
In the gameWhat soil conservation method…
In the gameWhich president took office in 1933 promising a 'New Deal' for the American people?
What name was given to President Roosevelt's informal radio broadcasts explaining policies directly to the public?
Which New Deal program…
In the gameWhich agency built hydroelectric…
In the gameWhich federal agency created…
In the gameWhich 1935 law created old-age retirement pensions and unemployment insurance for American workers?
Which massive New Deal agency employed millions to build roads and schools, while also hiring artists and writers?
Who was appointed Secretary…
In the gameWhich 1935 federal law…
In the gameWhat term describes Roosevelt's…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.