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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 event in October 1929 helped start the Great Depression?
  • A.The stock market crash
  • B.The end of the Dust Bowl
  • C.The United States entering World War II
2.Why did thousands of banks fail in the early 1930s?
  • A.The government closed every bank forever
  • B.Banks had too much money to store
  • C.People rushed to take out their savings, and many loans were never repaid
3.By 1933 about how many American workers had no job?
  • A.Almost none
  • B.About one in four
  • C.About one in a hundred
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.What did the FDIC, created in 1933, do for savers?
  • A.Closed banks that made loans
  • B.Paid people to stop saving
  • C.Insured bank deposits so savers would not lose their money
6.During the Depression, prices fell year after year. What is this called?
  • A.Deflation
  • B.Profit
  • C.Inflation
7.What were Hoovervilles?
  • A.Hotels where the president stayed
  • B.New towns built by the government for factory owners
  • C.Camps of shacks built by people who had lost their homes
8.What was the Dust Bowl?
  • A.A flood along the Mississippi
  • B.A program that paid farmers to plant more wheat
  • C.Years of drought and dust storms on the southern Great Plains

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Answer key — The Great Depression

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  1. 1.The stock market crash
  2. 2.People rushed to take out their savings, and many loans were never repaid
  3. 3.About one in four
  4. 4.Gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks
  5. 5.Insured bank deposits so savers would not lose their money
  6. 6.Deflation
  7. 7.Camps of shacks built by people who had lost their homes
  8. 8.Years of drought and dust storms on the southern Great Plains

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