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The Great Depression is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on the Great Depression as unemployment and falling prices, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.Eco.11.3-5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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The Great Depression

D2.Eco.11.3-5

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1.What did the Social Security Act of 1935 create?
  • A.The national park system
  • B.Payments for older Americans who had stopped working
  • C.Free cars for families
2.When many people lose their jobs, why do stores sell less?
  • A.Stores have nothing left to sell
  • B.People have less money to spend
  • C.Prices always rise when jobs are lost
3.What event in October 1929 helped start the Great Depression?
  • A.The United States entering World War II
  • B.The end of the Dust Bowl
  • C.The stock market crash
4.What did the Civilian Conservation Corps do?
  • A.Gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks
  • B.Built warships for World War I
  • C.Sold farms to banks
5.During the Depression, prices fell year after year. What is this called?
  • A.Profit
  • B.Inflation
  • C.Deflation
6.Which president started the New Deal?
  • A.Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • B.Herbert Hoover
  • C.Abraham Lincoln
7.By 1933 about how many American workers had no job?
  • A.About one in four
  • B.About one in a hundred
  • C.Almost none
8.Why did thousands of banks fail in the early 1930s?
  • A.The government closed every bank forever
  • B.People rushed to take out their savings, and many loans were never repaid
  • C.Banks had too much money to store

LessonPrint · D2.Eco.11.3-5 · Set 13 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — The Great Depression

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Payments for older Americans who had stopped working
  2. 2.People have less money to spend
  3. 3.The stock market crash
  4. 4.Gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks
  5. 5.Deflation
  6. 6.Franklin D. Roosevelt
  7. 7.About one in four
  8. 8.People rushed to take out their savings, and many loans were never repaid

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.11.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.