Natural Disasters
This disaster affected the plains states of the US throughout the 1930s
The Dust Bowl
Many families who lost their homes built shacks out of whatever they could find, large groups of these put together were called this
Hooverville's
The Great Depression is most well known for having the highest rate of ______
Term for when a person cannot pay the loan for their house/land and the bank takes their home/land/other goods away to recover the money they let them borrow
foreclosure
This disaster affected the Northeast US (Connecticut & Pennsylvania) and washed away many homes and businesses
The Great Flood of 1936
Divorce rates fell during the great depression because people could not afford to live ______
separately
The state that many people came to during the Great Depression in the hope that there were many available jobs there
California
Term for when the government gives money, goods, or services to their people in need
Public assistance
This is the term for when soil loses moisture and turns the land very dry, like what happened to farmland in the 1930s
Desertification
This member of the family regularly abandoned the family either to find work somewhere else or out of shame for not being able to provide for their family
father/husband
The three groups of people that factories wanted to fire first
Minority workers, old workers, young workers
Term for when someone is not healthy because they are not eating enough or are not eating healthy food
Malnutrition
What farmers did to the soil over years that made it worse
overworked/overused the soil
Name for the many families that left middle American states like Oklahoma and Kansas in order to move to California in hopes of finding jobs
Okies
Unemployment reached its highest number in 1932, the year of this political event
Election of 1932/ President Roosevelt's elction
1939 book by John Steinbeck that describes the tough life people had during the Great Depression as they traveled from Oklahoma to California
The Grapes of Wrath