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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.Free cars for families
  • B.The national park system
  • C.Payments for older Americans who had stopped working
2.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
3.During the Depression, prices fell year after year. What is this called?
  • A.Inflation
  • B.Deflation
  • C.Profit
4.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
5.What was the Dust Bowl?
  • A.A flood along the Mississippi
  • B.Years of drought and dust storms on the southern Great Plains
  • C.A program that paid farmers to plant more wheat
6.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
7.By 1933 about how many American workers had no job?
  • A.Almost none
  • B.About one in four
  • C.About one in a hundred
8.What did the Civilian Conservation Corps do?
  • A.Sold farms to banks
  • B.Gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks
  • C.Built warships for World War I

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Answer key — The Great Depression

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  1. 1.Payments for older Americans who had stopped working
  2. 2.Insured bank deposits so savers would not lose their money
  3. 3.Deflation
  4. 4.People have less money to spend
  5. 5.Years of drought and dust storms on the southern Great Plains
  6. 6.Camps of shacks built by people who had lost their homes
  7. 7.About one in four
  8. 8.Gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks

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