Vocabulary
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
New Deal
WWII
100

Lack of water on land and low rainfall

Drought

100

What played a big role that caused the land to be stripped

Straight rows

100

What event created the Great Depression

Stock Market Crash

100

Who created the New Deal?

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

100

Where did they place Japanese, German, and Italian descent who could be considered a potential threat

Internment Camps

200

Period of economic decline causing high unemployment, high prices, and lack of production

Economic Depression

200

How did the Dust Bowl affect economic development in Texas?

Farmers lost their farms to the banks

200

What happened when investors tried to sell their stocks?

Prices drop even faster

200

What did FDR want to address in his plan of the New Deal??

High Unemployment

200

What was the date that Pearl Harbor was attacked?

December 7, 1941

300

Confined as a prisoner 

Internment Camp

300

What caused the Dust Bowl?

Extremely high temperatures and severe droughts

300

What date did the Stock Market crash? What is the day known as?

October 29, 1929. Black Tuesday

300

How did the New Deal affect the lives of Texans?

Found employment building roads and bridges

300

What were three natural resources Texas had that contributed to World War II?

Cotton, Cattle, and Oil

400

A government that defines a system of beliefs and dictates how all resources are distributed or used

Fascism 

400

What event led farmers to lose their farms to the banks

Dust Bowl

400

Why couldn't people take out their money from the banks?

The banks did not have any money

400

What are the three R's? What did they do?

Relief- Help the poor

Recovery- Created Jobs

Reform- Prevent future economic problems

400

How did Texas benefit and provide supplies during the U.S involvement in World War II?

Natural Resources

500

Fast and unanticipated drop in prices

Stock Market Crash


500

How did planting in straight rows caused water to not soak 

Water rushes over the crops and does not soak in

500

Why were the banks making risky loans to the farmers?

Banks were not insured

500

Name one Program of the New Deal? what did it do?

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC):

Employed young, single men on outdoor conservation projects.

Public Works Administration (WPA):

Built dams, roads, bridges, hospitals, and schools.

500

What was the result that created the arrival of military facilities, petroleum plants, and naval and aircraft production? 

International Conflict