Where did Okies and other people from the Great Plains go when the Dust Bowl hit?
Californy
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When did the Dust Bowl end?
1939
100
Was the New Deal FDR's baby or Hoover's?
What is FDR's baby
100
What's a tariff?
tax on foreign goods
100
What's lard?
What is pig fat
200
Who wrote the Grapes of Wrath
Who is John Steinbeck
200
Where did the Dust Bowl hit hardest?
Texas panhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas and parts of Colorado and New Mexico
200
What's one program Hoover initiated to try to stop the Depression?
What is Reconstruction Finance Corporation (loans to banks), Emergency Relief and Construction Act (public works projects)
200
What was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
tariffs raised on imports, raised to record levels, other countries impose their own tarifss
200
when you eat dandelion salad, which part of the dandelion is eaten?
the greens, not the flower part
300
How does technology hurt the farmers in Grapes of Wrath?
tractors and equipment take the place of farmers, sharecroppers
300
Name 3 reasons why the Dust Bowl happened?
What are drought, bad farming practices, soil erosion
300
What did the Social Security Act achieve?
money to retired, widows, etc.
300
True or False: The stock market crash was the reason why the Great Depression happened?
False, it contributed to it but other factors caused it
300
What was the unemployment rate during the Depression?
about 25%
400
What's a sharecropper?
farmer who rents land, gives a share of his crops as payment for use of land
400
How many moved out of the plains states because of the Dust Bowl?
about 2.5 million
400
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
insured money on bank accounts, if bank goes under your money is still insured
400
What were the causes of the Great Depression?
falling consumer demand led to a recession, stock market crash, high tariffs reduced global demand for goods, unequal distribution of wealth, banks close, less money in circulation
400
What is a sit-down strike?
workers sit down inside factory, stop work, dont let in scabs, sheltered, effective
500
Why were migrant workers hated yet needed at the same time?
hated-seen as dirty, poor people but many were needed to harvest the huge crop fields out west
500
Why were animals killed off during the Dust Bowl?
What is to stabilize prices and because farmers couldn't feed the animals or themselves
500
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps?
provided unskilled manual labor jobs to unemployed doing work with conservation and natural resources
500
What role did the Federal Reserve play in contributing to bank failures and the Great Depression?
Federal Reserve allowed money supply to decrease, less money in circulation juice up the economy
500
What was the Wagner Act?
prevented businesses from firing or harassing workers because of union membership?