Families
Define Breadline
Public Handout, typically only place a family could get a meal
Act that brought farmers to the Great Plains
What is the Homestead Act?
October 29, 1929
Black Tuesday
This President believe in mass communication with the American people. These talks became known as fireside chats.
Roosevelt
Water; all meats
Intensive farming that led to reduced grassland for cattle is known as what?
Overgrazing
This Tariff raised taxes on imported (foreign) goods.
Hawley Smoot
This President created the 3 R's
They were Relief, Reform, & Recovery
Roosevelt
Families who became homeless had to live in this town.
What is Hooverville(s)?
What is a tenant farmer
60% of Americans earned less than ______ a year?
What is $2,000
This President believed in Trickle-Down Economics
Hoover
What three things declined within the family setting during the Great Depression
Birth Rates
Discipline
Education
Between 1930-1934 this many people lost their farms
1 million
What was a major factor that contributed to the failure of banks during the Great Depression?
People tried to withdraw their money, but banks had no funds to give
This President created and passed 15 bills that were collectively known as the New Deal
Roosevelt
How did African Americans suffer?
50% unemployment and "First to be fired and Last to be hired"
List the states that the Dust Bowl effected the most?
Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Kansas & Colorado
The wealthiest ____% earned the same amount as the bottom _____%
What is 1% and 42%
When the Bonus Army decided to march on Washington protesting their needs as veterans to provide for their families, this did not help the candidacy of which President?
Hoover