Start of the GD
What year did the Great Depression start?
What is 1929?
Name 2 results/impacts of the stock market crash on Americans
What was loss of jobs and money?
These years are when the Dust Bowl started and ended
What is 1931-1939?
This is the year the Great Depression ended.
What is 1939?
This event is often considered to be the starting point of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
During the Great Depression, people would line up at ____________ to get food. These were normally run by charities.
What are soup kitchens/breadlines?
As a result of the failure of their farms due to the Dust Bowl, many people moved here to find farming work.
What is west/to California?
True or False:
Once the Great Depression ended, people easily became rich again.
What is false?
This person was President when the Great Depression started.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
These people were unemployed and snuck onto trains to ride from town to town.
What are hoboes?
Who are farmers?
In addition to FDR's New Deal, this major event contributed to the end of the Great Depression.
What is WWII?
October 29, 1929 is also known as this.
What is Black Tuesday?
The unemployed and poor often lived in run down "shanty towns." They were often referred to by this name.
What is Hooverville?
These things caused the Dust Bowl
What is draught and over-farming the land?
What is: people did not think he was doing enough to help Americans recover and live?
These are 2 ways the New Deal helped Americans.
What are created jobs, the Social Security Act, helped farmers, insured/protected money in banks.
True or False:
The Dust Bowl happened all over the United States
False - it was only in the Great Plains (Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico)