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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.When many people lose their jobs, why do stores sell less?
  • A.Prices always rise when jobs are lost
  • B.People have less money to spend
  • C.Stores have nothing left to sell
2.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
3.By 1933 about how many American workers had no job?
  • A.About one in four
  • B.Almost none
  • C.About one in a hundred
4.During the Depression, prices fell year after year. What is this called?
  • A.Profit
  • B.Inflation
  • C.Deflation
5.What was the Dust Bowl?
  • A.A program that paid farmers to plant more wheat
  • B.A flood along the Mississippi
  • C.Years of drought and dust storms on the southern Great Plains
6.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
7.Which president started the New Deal?
  • A.Abraham Lincoln
  • B.Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • C.Herbert Hoover
8.What did the FDIC, created in 1933, do for savers?
  • A.Insured bank deposits so savers would not lose their money
  • B.Paid people to stop saving
  • C.Closed banks that made loans

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Answer key — The Great Depression

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  1. 1.People have less money to spend
  2. 2.Payments for older Americans who had stopped working
  3. 3.About one in four
  4. 4.Deflation
  5. 5.Years of drought and dust storms on the southern Great Plains
  6. 6.Gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks
  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.