Show:
Facts
Negative Changes
Dust Bowl
People
Positive Changes
100
not having a job
What is unemployment?
100
The year the Stock Market Crashed.
What is 1929?
100
Cause of the Dust Bowl
What is a drought?
100
A person that rides the trains from town to town to find a job.
What is a hobo?
100
New Deal programs that are still around today
What are the Social Security Act and the Federal Deposit Insurance?
200
Reason the factories failed
What is people could no longer afford the products that were being made?
200
The decade the Great Depression occured.
What are the 1930's?
200
Damage done by the Dust Bowl
What is ruined crops, killed animals, blew away fields?
200
Elected president in 1926 and was in office when the Great Depression hit America
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
The purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps
What is a program that gave young men jobs building roads and parks and planting trees?
300
What Herbert Hoover did during the Great Depression.
What is nothing?
300
This happened once the economy slowed and investors begin to quickly sell their stocks
What is the Stock Market crashed?
300
Describe the Dust Bowl
What is a period of severe dust storms?
300
The shacks and tent homes were named after this person
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
Programs made to bring relief, recovery, and reform to Americans
What was the New Deal?
400
Places that peole moved once they lost thier homes, shacks and tents.
What were Hoovervilles?
400
Three Causes of the Great Depression
What are economic weakness, unemployment, and banks and businesses failed?
400
Cause of the Dust Bowl
What is a drought?
400
President responsible for creating the New Deal programs
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
The purpose of the Social Security Act
What is a program that gave money to the disabled and elderly?
500
Describe the domino effect
Businesses failed---laid off workers---no money to make purchases---decrease in sales
500
Reason the banks failed.
What is unemployed people could no longer pay back thier bank loans?
500
Ffect the Dust Bowl in the Midwest had on farmers
What is forced to migrate to California to look for jobs
500
People that had to migrate to California to escape the Dust Storms.
Who are farmers?
500
The purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
What is a program that helped make consumer’s money safe in banks?