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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 United States entering World War II
  • B.The end of the Dust Bowl
  • C.The stock market crash
2.When did the Great Depression finally end?
  • A.In 1960
  • B.Around 1941, as factories hired workers for World War II
  • C.In 1930, one year after the crash
3.What did the Civilian Conservation Corps do?
  • A.Gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks
  • B.Sold farms to banks
  • C.Built warships for World War I
4.What were Hoovervilles?
  • A.New towns built by the government for factory owners
  • B.Camps of shacks built by people who had lost their homes
  • C.Hotels where the president stayed
5.When many people lose their jobs, why do stores sell less?
  • A.Stores have nothing left to sell
  • B.Prices always rise when jobs are lost
  • C.People have less money to spend
6.By 1933 about how many American workers had no job?
  • A.Almost none
  • B.About one in a hundred
  • C.About one in four
7.What was the Dust Bowl?
  • A.Years of drought and dust storms on the southern Great Plains
  • B.A program that paid farmers to plant more wheat
  • C.A flood along the Mississippi
8.Why did thousands of banks fail in the early 1930s?
  • A.People rushed to take out their savings, and many loans were never repaid
  • B.Banks had too much money to store
  • C.The government closed every bank forever

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Answer key — The Great Depression

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The stock market crash
  2. 2.Around 1941, as factories hired workers for World War II
  3. 3.Gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks
  4. 4.Camps of shacks built by people who had lost their homes
  5. 5.People have less money to spend
  6. 6.About one in four
  7. 7.Years of drought and dust storms on the southern Great Plains
  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.