Causes
Entertainment
Life
The Dust Bowl
Chance
100
Takes place when many depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time
Bank Run
100
Famous Depression-era film about life in the South towards the end of the Civil War
Gone with the Wind
100
Homeless wanderers who often rode the rails looking for work
Hobos
100
_______________ from WWI caused crop prices to drop.
Overproduction
100
WWI Veterans who marched to Washington D.C. to try to get an early payment of their $1,000 bonus.
Bonus Army
200
Type of market when stock prices continue to rise
Bull Market
200
Daytime radio dramas sponsored by various makers of laundry soap
Soap Operas
200
Places where homeless people put up shacks on unused or public lands
Hoovervilles (shantytowns)
200
How did the farmers in the Mid-West unintentionally destroy the soil there?
Overproduction, not rotating crops, not leaving fields vacant for a season so that native grasses could replenish the soil
200
Government financed building projects
Public Works
300
Stockbroker's demand for immediate repayment of a loan
Margin Call
300
The first feature-length animated film
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
300
Private charities set up to give poor people a meal
Soup Kitchens
300
Where did many Dust Bowl refugees relocate themselves?
California
300
Created when the government spends more money than it collects in taxes
Budget Deficit
400
Investing in the stock market with hopes of a quick profit
Speculation
400
Where couples might dance for hundreds of hours in hopes of winning cash prizes
Dance Marathons
400
DAILY DOUBLE!! Famous folk singer/songwriter who chronicled life from the early to mid-1900's. He traveled on Route 66 from OK to CA.
Woody Guthrie
400
Why did many Dust Bowl refugees relocate to CA?
Work in agriculture
400
He wrote The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
500
October 29, 1929
Black Tuesday
500
Comic star of the stage and screen (one of many Hollyweird stars wiped out financially in the stock market crash)
Groucho Marx
500
Famous photographer who chronicled life during the Depression. Her most famous photograph is "Migrant Mother"
Dorthea Lange
500
DAILY DOUBLE!! What were the main (SIX in order from North to South) states hit by the Dust Bowl?
ND, SD, NB, KS, OK, TX
500
A major campaign issue in the 1928 election was
Prohibition (Hoover = dry vs. Smith = wet)
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