Causes of the Great Depression
This 1929 event caused stock prices to crash and led to the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)?
A long period without rain that helped cause the Dust Bowl is called this.
What is drought?
Franklin D. Roosevelt created programs to create jobs during this era.
What is the Great Depression?
The U.S. prepared for war by doing this—collecting supplies and organizing the military.
What is mobilizing?
Women took on non‑traditional jobs in factories.
What is a social impact?
One major economic cause of the Great Depression was bad trading practices and this.
What is overproduction
This farming practice removed grass roots and made soil vulnerable to erosion.
What is overplowing?
Over 750,000 Texans entered the military during this period.
What is World War II?
Many men were required to join the military through this process.
What is the draft?
Britain and France declared war on Germany.
What is a political impact?
Texas’s economy was hurt when prices dropped in this important industry.
What is the oil industry?
Strong winds and dry soil caused massive storms of this across the Plains.
What is dust?
Japanese planes bombed this U.S. naval base in 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Commercial agriculture expanded in Texas during WWII.
What is an economic impact?
This geographic region of Texas was especially affected by drought and farming problems.
What is the Texas Panhandle?
One social effect of the Dust Bowl was that many families did this.
What is leaving their land / migration?
Women and minorities took new factory jobs during this era.
What is World War II?
Items like food, shoes, and gasoline were limited during WWII, a process called this.
What is rationing?
Minorities gained new job opportunities during the war.
What is a social impact?
Nationwide layoffs during the Great Depression led to record levels of this.
What is unemployment?
The Dust Bowl was both an environmental disaster and this type of problem for farmers.
What is an economic problem?
Both eras caused major changes to Texas’s economy and this part of life.
What is social
New military bases and factories gave Texas an economic boost during this era.
What is World War II?
Government regulation increased during the New Deal.
What is a political impact?