Vocab part 1
Farming done on a large scale with the goal of selling crops or livestock for profit, rather than just feeding your own family.
Commercial Agriculture
The movement of people from one place to another, often in search of better jobs, land, or living conditions.
Migration
One of the greatest economic disasters in America
The Great depression
This long lasting drought made the Great Depression even worse for the Panhandle in Texas
The Dust Bowl
Farming where families grow just enough food to feed themselves, with little or nothing leftover to sell.
Subsistence Agriculture
A long period of little or no rainfall that causes water shortages and damages crops and livestock.
Drought
The president who solved the Great Depression
FDR(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
small shelters made of cardboard and tin that people lived in during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl.
Okievilles/Hoovervilles
A place where people buy and sell small pieces of ownership (called shares or stocks) in companies, hoping their value will grow over time.
Stock Market
The careful protection and management of natural resources — like water, land, and forests — so they aren't wasted or destroyed.
Conservation
This 3 letter program created over 100,000 jobs, helping unemployed workers support their families by building roads, bridges, schools, and public buildings statewide.
WPA (Works Progress Administration)
The worst day in the Dust Bowl
Black Sunday
An economic system where people and businesses can own property, make their own choices, and compete with each other with limited government control.
Free Enterprise
When a bank takes back a home or property because the owner could no longer afford to make their loan payments.
Foreclosure
This 3 letter program created jobs for farmers and workers, boosting rural economies while developing Texas state parks and natural infrastructure during the Great Depression.
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
Farmers rotate crops in a set pattern, planting one crop that uses certain nutrients one season, then following it with different crop that replenishes those nutrients in the next season.
Crop Rotation
The belief that farming and rural life are the foundation of a strong society, and that farmers deserve respect and political support.
Agrarianism
A severe, long-lasting economic downturn where businesses fail, many people lose their jobs, and the economy struggles for years. (Example: The Great Depression of the 1930s.)
(When unemployment is over 20%)
Depression
This program developed by FDR brought electricity to rural areas in Texas, improving daily life, creating jobs, and boosting economic growth.
REA (rural electrical administration)
a method of farming whereby “steps” known as terraces are built onto the slopes of hills and mountains. When it rains, instead of rain carrying away the soil nutrients and plants down the slope, they flow to the next terrace. Every step has an outlet which channels water to the next step. This helps in keeping some areas dry and others wet.
Terrace Farming