Great Depression
This is the name given to the day when the stock market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
What are PHYSICAL causes of the dust storms?
He launched many new programs to provide financial aid to people and recover the economy?
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Who were the Axis Powers?
The gradual wearing away of soil.
What is erosion?
What event pulled U.S. out of the Great Depression?
World War II
What are HUMAN causes of the Dust Bowl?
Poor farming practices such as overgrazing and over-plowing of land.
Offered loans to businesses and believed private charities should meet people's needs.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
United States forcibly relocated and confined Japanese Americans and immigrants in camps.
What were Internment Camps?
Camps full of homeless people living in makeshift shacks near major cities.
What were Hoovervilles?
When a company makes more products than people are willing to buy.
What is overproduction?
Where did many farmers migrate to during the Dust Bowl?
California (or the West).
Feared that Roosevelt had become too powerful and would take away people's freedom?
What are criticisms of the New Deal?
A political system where a government has complete control over the country.
What is Facism?
A prolonged period with large numbers of unemployed, declining incomes, and general economic hardship.
What is economic depression or recession?
Which region of the United States was most impacted by the dust storms?
The Great Plains
A New Deal program that put people to work in combatting erosion and building parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corporation (CCC)?
The event that pushed the U.S. to enter World War II.
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
A period of increased profit followed by a sharp decrease in prices.
Unemployment had the greatest impact on which groups of people?
Women and minorities
The novel that focuses on the impact of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.
The Grapes of Wrath
Longtime speaker of the House who helped pass New Deal legislation in Texas.
Who is Sam Rayburn?
Commander of the Women's Army Corps during World War II.
Who is Oveta Culp Hobby?
A foreign-born resident of a country who has not become a citizen of that country.
Who are aliens?