Dust Bowl
The lack of rain was a major cause of the Dust Bowl, also known as
What is drought?
Cardboard, lumber, sheets, stone, glass, ect
What are items used to make shelter?
Silicon Valley Bank goes by this acronym
What is SVB
This gangster ran a bootlegging empire in Chicago
Who is Al Capone?
Mr. Larkin enjoys wear funky articles of this clothing
What are socks?
Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado make up a region. This area was most impacted by the Dust Bowl
What is the Great Plains?
Hoovervilles were ideally located by this natural feature
What is water?
We talked about two types of clientele that SVB catered to
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He was put on trial for teaching evolution
Who is John Scopes?
Mr. Larkin attempts his best Jim Carrey impression saying this word
I got sick during the Dust Bowl.
What is dust pneumonia?
Many Hoovervilles were located outside of Boston, NYC, St. Louis, Chicago. There is a term for these places
What are cities?
SVB lost this much money due to bad bonds and a bank run
What is 200 billion dollars
This made teaching evolution illegal in TN in 1925
What is the Butler Act?
Mr. Larkin will be moving here after he graduates
What is Long Island?
Even though I am not from Oklahoma I given this derogatory label
What is an Okie?
Cardboard shoved into shoes where there was a hole
What is Hoover leather?
SVB was founded in this year
What is 1983?
This scandal involved oil
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Mr. Larkin used to have this song as his alarm
What is "Eye of the Tiger"
Intense dust storms that lasted for days. We usually experience one part of the answer during Winter
What are black blizzards?
This was the location of the largest Hooverville in the United States
What is St. Louis, Missouri?
SVB was the second largest bank collapse in American history. The name of the largest happens to also be a state for the first part of the name
What is Washington Mutual?
Marcus Garvey was born and later deported here
What is Jamaica?
This is Mr. Larkin's girlfriend's name
What is Sammi?