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Great Depression
Dust Bowl
Economy
New Deal
Culture
100
A time when people can't find work and many businesses close
What is a depression?
100
This is a farmer who pays rent to live and farm on land another person owns.
What is a tenant farmer?
100
This event started the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
100
The president of the United States who created the New Deal
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
This is where a lot of the temporary homes were built together or in the same place
What is a shantytown?
200
One of the causes of The Great Depression
What is debt or bank failures?
200
This is a farmer that gives part of his crop to the owner of the land to live there and farm the land
What is a sharecropper?
200
This shows part ownership in a business
What is a stock?
200
This a program that created jobs and conserved the environment
What is the CCC Civilian Conservation Corps?
200
This band leader was famous for making people foget their problems for a little while in the 1930's
Who is Duke Ellington?
300
This is what happens when a bank fails
What is people lose their money and savings?
300
Area in the Great Plains that had a severe drought in the early 1930's
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
This is where stocks can be traded
What is a stock market?
300
This is a group that built dams on the Tennessee River that generated electricity
What is TVA the Tennessee Valley Authority?
300
She wrote the novel Gone With the Wind
Who is Margaret Mitchell?
400
This is what happens when unemployed people have less money to spend
What is stores order less, factories make less, factories lose jobs, more people unemployed?
400
The effect of having less plants and grasses growing
What is winds blowing loose dust and dirt?
400
True or false- The United States was the only country in the world that had a depression during the 1930's
What is False?
400
This a program that hired people to build streets, parks, libraries, and schools
What is the WPA Works Progress Administration?
400
He won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics
Who is Jesse Owens?
500
This is the number of people looking for a job but can't find one
What is unemployment?
500
These were called "Black Blizzards"
What are dust storms?
500
Period in the United States when millions of people became unemployed and many companies went out of business
What is the Great Depression?
500
This is the lowest amount that a person can be paid on his job.
What is minimum wage?
500
Where were the 1936 Olympics held?
What is Berlin, Germany?