(QUESTIONS) 1
What year did the Dust Bowl Start?
1930
Stock
Shares of ownership in a corporation
What is the Second New Deal
Second group of laws that created social programs that helped common people during the depression.
What was the name of the disease associated with the Dust Bowl?
"Dust Pneumonia"
social security
social welfare program in the U.S.
What year did the Dust Bowl end?
1936
Pardon
To excuse from punishment
Herbert Hoover
the president of the u.s from 1923-1933 leader of the us in the beginning of the great depression. he didn't want the gov involved in the peoples lives and thought that the people should express their individual rights.
How was the Dust Bowl solved?
AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Administration: attempted to regulate agricultural production through farm subsidies; ruled unconstitutional in 1936; disbanded after World War II
What states were involved in the Dust Bowl?
colorado, kansas, texas, oklahoma, and new mexico
Strike
A refusal to work as protest against the employer
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
A tax on imported goods. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of June 1930 raised U.S. tariffs to historically high levels.
What were the people called who left the Dust Bowl area and went to other places?
Okies
Bank run
widespread panic in which great numbers of people try to redeem their paper money
what are hoboes ?
Young men who couldn't find any work.
Material law
The law applied by government military forces in an emergency
Black Tuesday
day the stock market crashed, signaling the start of the Great Depression
What crop did most farmers in the Great Plains grow?
Wheat
Inflation
The value of money decreases and is usually associated with a rise in prices
what was the huge area of farmland that dried up in the great depression called ?
The Dust Bowl
Axis Power
The countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan - the three dictatorships
Works Progress Administration
Hires jobless people to build public buildings and parks
Who was president when the Dust Bowl began?
Hoover
Work Relief
a program creaed by Roosevelt to create jobs for the unemployed. the program gave needy people government jobs.