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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 were Hoovervilles?
  • A.Camps of shacks built by people who had lost their homes
  • B.Hotels where the president stayed
  • C.New towns built by the government for factory owners
2.What event in October 1929 helped start the Great Depression?
  • A.The United States entering World War II
  • B.The stock market crash
  • C.The end of the Dust Bowl
3.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
4.When many people lose their jobs, why do stores sell less?
  • A.People have less money to spend
  • B.Stores have nothing left to sell
  • C.Prices always rise when jobs are lost
5.When did the Great Depression finally end?
  • A.In 1960
  • B.In 1930, one year after the crash
  • C.Around 1941, as factories hired workers for World War II
6.What did the Social Security Act of 1935 create?
  • A.Free cars for families
  • B.Payments for older Americans who had stopped working
  • C.The national park system
7.Which president started the New Deal?
  • A.Abraham Lincoln
  • B.Herbert Hoover
  • C.Franklin D. Roosevelt
8.What did the FDIC, created in 1933, do for savers?
  • A.Insured bank deposits so savers would not lose their money
  • B.Closed banks that made loans
  • C.Paid people to stop saving

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Answer key — The Great Depression

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  1. 1.Camps of shacks built by people who had lost their homes
  2. 2.The stock market crash
  3. 3.Years of drought and dust storms on the southern Great Plains
  4. 4.People have less money to spend
  5. 5.Around 1941, as factories hired workers for World War II
  6. 6.Payments for older Americans who had stopped working
  7. 7.Franklin D. Roosevelt
  8. 8.Insured bank deposits so savers would not lose their money

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