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)
The agricultural practice of growing a single crop species, such as corn, wheat, or soybeans, over a large area of land, usually for consecutive seasons.
Monoculture
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 event started the Great Depression in America
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 war brought America out of the Great Depression
World War 2
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
During the Great depression, the unemployment rate across the US was
25%
small shelters made of cardboard and tin that people lived in during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl making fun of a very ineffective president.
Hoovervilles/Okievilles