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This is the name of the ten-year period in the 1930s when the economy failed, businesses closed, and millions of people lost their jobs.
What is the Great Depression?
The Dust Bowl was caused by a combination of severe dust storms and this type of weather, which means a long period without any rain.
What is a drought?
People often stood in long lines waiting for what?
He was the President of the United States when the Great Depression first began, and many people blamed him for the poor economy.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
When the Great Depression started, thousands of these neighborhood businesses ran out of money and had to lock their doors forever.
What are banks?
This major financial event happened in October 1929 and is considered the starting point of the Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash? (Accept: "Black Tuesday")
This region of the United States, known for its flat farming plains, was the area hardest hit by the Dust Bowl.
What is the Great Plains?
These messy, temporary neighborhoods made of cardboard and scrap wood shacks were built by homeless people.
What were Hoovervilles?
This president was elected in 1932 because he promised to create a plan to help the American people recover.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt? (Accept: "FDR")
True or False: During the early days of the Depression, if your bank closed, the money you had saved inside of it was gone forever.
What is True?
This is the abbreviation for the global war that finally ended the Great Depression by putting millions of Americans back to work in factories.
What is WWII?
During the Dust Bowl, giant clouds of this blew across the land and covered everything.
What is dirt? (Accept: "Dust")
Many children had to make this sacrifice to try and find small jobs to help their families buy food.
What was quitting school?
This was the name of President Roosevelt's massive plan to create government programs and get people back to work.
What was the New Deal?
True or False: The Great Depression only happened in America and nowhere else.
What is False? (It happened all over the world)
These people suffered the most during the Dust Bowl because their crops were ruined.
Who were farmers?
People named their makeshift blankets "Hoover Blankets," but they were actually just made out of this common reading material.
What is newspaper?
Under the New Deal, the government hired millions of young men to plant trees and work in these public spaces, which we still visit today.
What are National Parks? (Accept: "State Parks")
This is the specific month and year when the Great Depression began.
What was October 1929?
Many ruined farmers packed up their cars and migrated to this western state looking for fruit-picking jobs.
What is California?
What famous photographer photographed the Great Depression?
What is Dorthea Lange?
Under the New Deal, the government paid young men to plant millions of these to help save the soil.
What are trees?