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2025 test · 104/128Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information

Question 104: When did the Great Depression start?

Official answers (any one counts)

USCIS accepts any of these answers. If the question asks for more than one, give as many as it asks.

  • The Great Crash (1929)
  • Stock market crash of 1929

Grandpa explains

In October 1929 the stock market crashed and many people lost their savings overnight.

Careful: these are NOT the answer

These are the common mix-ups. The app uses them as traps so you practice.

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
  • End of the Civil War (1865)
  • End of World War I (1918)

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