The Hoover Dam
The name of the river that the Hoover Dam is on.
What is the Colorado River?
This is the name of the worst dust storm in U.S. History.
What is the Black Sunday Dust Storm?
The year in which the stock market crashed at the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is 1929?
The year construction on Mt. Rushmore began.
What is 1927?
The German boxer that faced American Joe Louis twice.
Who was Max Schmeling?
The engineer that led the building of the Hoover Dam.
Who is Frank Crow?
The number or fraction of people to leave their farms because of the dust storms.
What is 250,000 or 1/3?
The name of the first bank to fail (close) during the Great Depression.
What is the Bank of the United States?
The year construction on Mt. Rushmore was finished.
What is 1941?
The winner by knockout in the first fight between Louis and Schmeling.
Who was Schmeling?
The two states that the Hoover Dam borders.
What are Arizona and Nevada?
This is another name for dust pneumonia.
What is the "Brown Plague"?
When many people don't trust a bank and withdraw their money.
What is a bank run?
The kind of rock Mt. Rushmore was made out of.
What is granite?
The winner in 2 minutes and 4 seconds in the second fight between Louis and Schmeling.
Who was Louis?
The building of the Hoover Dam helped the U.S. out of the Great Depression by doing this.
What is giving thousands of people jobs?
These are the 4 reasons why the dust storms happened.
What are over farming, high winds, drought and no top soil?
The name of the 1st person to start the bank run on the Bank of the United States during the Great Depression.
Who is we don't know?
The main tool that was used to create Mt. Rushmore.
What is dynamite?
The number of people listening by radio to the second Louis vs. Schmeling fight was the largest ever.
What is 100 million people?
These are the 3 ways in which the workers on the Hoover Dam died.
What are explosions, carbon monoxide poisoning (vehicle exhaust), dust
These are the 4 parts of how dust storms can form.
What is heat, wind, drought and static electricity?
The 3 main reasons why the bust happened in the U.S..
What are borrowing money, no saving, credit
The 4 U.S. Presidents depicted on Mt. Rushmore.
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln?
These are two of the four symbolic fights represented by Louis vs. Schmeling.
What is U.S. vs. Germany, Democracy vs. Nazism, black vs. white, freedom vs. tyranny