Causes & Effects
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 led to this major event.
What is the Great Depression?
The wind blew away a lot of this, causing there to be no place for plants to thrive in the Great Plains.
What is soil?
During the Great Depression, this rose to nearly 25%.
What is unemployment?
This U.S. President was elected in 1932 and introduced the New Deal to help Americans recover.
Who was FDR?
The state of not having a job.
What is unemployment?
A combination of drought, new farming techniques, and urbanization caused this major event in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl put farmer's out of business, causing them to do this.
What is Migration?
This decade saw the start of the Great Depression in the United States.
What is the 1930s?
This is the title of the song we analyzed in class together.
What is, No Depression in Heaven?
A significant and widespread slowdown of a country's economy that lasts for more than a few months.
What is a Recession?
An over-investment in this caused the Great Depression.
What are stocks?
The wind was so strong, that it could cut these down and blow them away?
What are plants?
This is the President commonly blamed for starting the Great Depression.
Who is President Hoover?
This was made during the New Deal to ensure that retired veterans would still have money.
What is Social Security?
Supply is how much of a product or service is available, while demand is how much people want it.
What is Supply & Demand?
These laws passed by FDR are commonly attributed to ending the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Document C, or the Government Report credited these three reasons for the Dust Bowl.
What is overcropping, overgrazing, and improper farming techniques?
During the Great Depression, some people lived in Hoovervilles (homeless encampments) and had to build their homes out of this.
What is trash?
This New Deal Organization provided 1 million meals to undernourished children.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
A tax that a government places on imported goods, or products coming in from another country.
What is a Tariff?
If the seller has an overwhelming number of supplies, the price of those supplies does this.
What is, the price goes down?
Professor Donald Worster blames this type of American energy for the Dust Bowl.
What is expansionary energy?
FDR gave updates on the Great Depression over the radio and called them this.
What are fireside chats?
This New Deal organization forced more than 100,000 African-Americans off their land between 1933 & 1934.
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
The wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services.
What is an Economy?