Presidents
The president who was in office when the Stock Market Crashed.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The time period that Duke Ellington, Jesse Owens, and Margaret Mitchell became famous in.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
The stock market did this, causing the Great Depression.
What is crashed?
What is a drought?
The amount of times that President Franklin D. Roosevelt served in office.
What is 4 times?
The sport that Jesse Owens was an athlete in.
What is track & field?
This program was created to help solve the Dust Bowl by hiring young men to plant trees across the Midwest.
What is the CCC?
On this single day, the stock market lost $14 billion, making it the hugest loss of money.
What is Black Tuesday?
The part of the country where the Dust Bowl occurred.
What is the midwest?
The name of Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife, who was also his cousin.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This city is both the place that Margaret Mitchell was born in, and died in.
What is Atlanta?
If you were an artist, you could get hired to paint murals and write stories for this New Deal program.
What is the WPA?
When factories made too much of a product, it caused this.
What is overproduction?
Farmers were incorrectly growing this crop; it ruined the land.
What is wheat?
People called the slums that poor people lived in this, named after the president that people felt didn't care about them.
What are Hoovervilles?
This German leader was extremely racist, and didn't expect anyone but White people to win the Olympics
Who is Adolph Hitler?
This New Deal program is still in place today; it pays elderly people and supports people if they become unemployed.
What is Social Security?
Inventions like radios, washing machines, and cars caused poor people to want to use this to purchase.
What is credit?
This particular day was one of the worst blackouts of the Dust Bowl.
What is Black Sunday?
What is handicapped?
The name of the book that sold 1,000,000 copies in only 6 months.
What is "Gone With the Wind?"
If I was struggling and needed a place to stay, I could go to this agency and get an apartment, called the projects.
What is the FHA?
More than this many banks closed as a result of the Stock Market crash of 1929.
What is 10,000 banks?
Many people who lived in the Dust Bowl left and moved to this state, where they were called this name.
What is California? What are "Okies?"