He was president of the United States at the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. Shantytowns of homeless and destitute people were named after him.
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
100
The dates in which the Dust Bowl took place.
What is 1931 to 1939?
100
True or False: The Dust Bowl was both a manmade and natural disaster.
What is true?
100
The specific region of the United States that experienced the most devastating dust storms.
What are the Southern Great Plains?
100
A windstorm that lifts up dust and sand.
What is a duster?
200
A series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What is The New Deal?
200
The day that the most devastating duster of the Dust Bowl hit the Southern Great Plains was known as ________.
What is Black Sunday?
200
He wrote and sang songs about the Dust Bowl and was known as the Dust Bowl Troubadour.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
200
This was the only major highway leading into the breadbasket of California and the road of choice for many migrants.
What is Route 66?
200
A person who moves from place to place to get work, especially a farm laborer who harvests crops seasonally.
What is a migrant(farmer)?
300
This agency hired photographers to document the American West during the Great Depression in order to help combat American poverty.
What is the Farm Security Administration?
300
She was hired by the Farm Security Administration to document the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
300
A term used to refer to a migrant farm worker from Oklahoma or nearby states, especially one who moved westward during the Great Depression.
What are Okies?
300
Route 66 begins and ends in these two US Cities.
What are Chicago and Los Angeles?
300
A disorder caused by excessive exposure to dust storms and results when the lungs are filled with dust.
What is Dust Pneumonia?
400
This piece of legislation ensured financial security for elderly Americans and provided unemployment compensation.
What is the Social Security Act?
400
Shantytowns built to house the throngs of migrant workers from Oklahoma.
What are "Okievilles?"
400
The day the Stock Market crashed is known as_________.
What is Black Tuesday?
400
A major agricultural center within California’s Central Valley.
What is the San Joaquin Valley?
400
The process of using farm machinery to increase farm worker productivity.
What is mechanized farming?
500
Of the 3R's, this created permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters.
What is reform?
500
The date of Black Sunday.
What is April 14, 1935?
500
Dorothea Lange's most famous image from the Dust Bowl was called the ____________.
What is the Migrant Mother?
500
The six states that experienced major erosion and dust storms, known as “the Dust Bowl" were Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and _______.