The Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Presidential
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
Winter 1934
100
The year the Great Depression started.
What is 1929?
100
Two causes of the Dust Bowl.
What are bad farming practices and drought?
100
President of the U.S. in 1929 when the Stock Market crashed.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
The name of the baby.
What is Charles?
100
The place the narrator was born.
What is the kitchen floor?
200
This crashed in 1929 plummeting the economy into the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market?
200
The name given to many people who jumped on trains to search for work in other areas.
What are hobos?
200
The name of camps of homeless and unemployed people.
What is Hooverville?
200
Age of the baby.
What is 20 months old?
200
The name of the narrator.
What is Billie Jo?
300
The approximate number of people who became unemployed during the Depression.
What is 13-15 million?
300
The states mostly affected by the Dust Bowl (name 3).
What are Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, and Nebraska?
300
The president elected in 1932.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
The amount requested in the ransom note.
What is $ 50,000?
300
The type of musical instrument the narrator plays.
What is a piano?
400
The type of kitchens that many people went to because they could not afford to feed themselves.
What are soup kitchens?
400
The worst of the black blizzards was known as this.
What is Black Sunday?
400
The political party that FDR belonged to.
What is Democrat?
400
The state the Lindberghs lived in when the baby was kidnapped.
What is New Jersey?
400
The type of animal that Mr. Noble and Mr. Romney have bet each can kill the most of.
What is a rabbit?
500
The name of the world event that helped pull the U.S. out of the Depression.
What is WWII?
500
The state that many people migrated to in order to find jobs.
What is California?
500
The name given to the programs that helped the U.S. recover from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
What is the New Deal?
500
The name of the baby's kidnapper.
Who is Bruno Richard Hauptman?
500
The name of the boy that the narrator has a crush on.
Who is Mad Dog Craddock?
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