Great Depression
This event caused panic and helped start the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday (stock market crash)?
Kansas communities often held these events to help each other survive hard times.
What are potlucks or community gatherings?
This long-term weather problem helped cause the Dust Bowl.
What is drought?
This farming method follows the natural curves of the land.
What is contour farming?
This attack caused the U.S. to enter World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Kansas farmers struggled with this issue even before the Depression began.
What are low crop prices?
This government organization protected people’s bank money.
What is the FDIC?
Removing deep-rooted grasses caused this environmental problem.
What is soil erosion?
Rows of trees planted to block wind are called this.
What are shelterbelts?
This system requires people to serve in the military.
What is conscription (the draft)?
He was the U.S. president when the Great Depression began.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This type of government project was used to create jobs during the Depression.
What are public works projects?
April 14, 1935, is known by this name.
What is Black Sunday?
This government program gave jobs planting trees and fixing land.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
He led the D-Day invasion in Normandy.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Many Kansas farmers lost their land because they could not pay these.
What are mortgages or debts?
People reused materials, grew food, and did this to survive.
What is “making do” or recycling/reusing?
These insects destroyed remaining crops during the Dust Bowl.
What are grasshoppers?
Farmers learned this technique to keep soil healthy by rotating crops.
What is crop rotation?
Germany and Japan did this to end World War II.
What is surrender?
This Kansas governor temporarily stopped home foreclosures.
Who is Alfred Landon?
A Kansan journalist documented these during the Depression in rural areas.
What are struggles of rural communities?
This animal population grew quickly and led to “rabbit drives.”
What are jackrabbits?
This resource-saving method helped farmers water crops more efficiently.
What is improved irrigation?
This group included women working in factories and farms during the war.
What is the home front workforce?