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Vocab
Great Depression
WW2
Important People
Random Facts
Dust Bowl
New Deal
100
the buying and selling of stocks as shares in companies
Stock Market
100
What is is often blamed for starting the great depression?
The stock market crash
100
The Texas economy moved more to industrialization due to?
World War 2
100
Who was a long-serving U.S. congressman, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Supporter of Roosevelt’s new deal?
Sam Rayburn
100
October 29th, 1929 is known as?
Black Tuesday
100

List the five state area the Dust Bowl covered.

What are Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas

100

Impact of the Great Depression on Texas

What are the political, social, and economic impacts?

200
a period of economic decline characterized by high unemployment, high prices, and a lack of economic production
Economic Depression
200
What event lead to the great depression being especially damaging to the agriculture business?
a severe drought
200
What was needed the most from Texas during the war?
Natural Resources
200
Who served in the Texas House of Representatives, Served as the Speaker of the House for the U.S. House of Representatives, and served as vice-president during F.D.R.’s first two terms?
John Nance Garner
200
What area of Texas was effected the most during the Dust Bowl?
Texas Panhandle
200

Developments from the Dust Bowl included.

What are New Deal Programs initiated to prevent erosion, people migrating from the Panhandle, and crop prices dropping? 

200

Political impacts included

What are the New Deal programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Public Works Administration (PWA), and Works Progress Administration (WPA)?

300
practice of giving out limited amounts of food and supplies, generally given to soldiers or civilians during war time
Rationing
300
Texas politicians accepted what government solution during the great depression?
The New Deal
300
What describes how Texas society changed during the Second World War?
It became a urban society rather than rural.
300
Who was the 5 star admiral from Texas
Admiral Chester Nimitz
300
Name these events in order I Discovery of Oil at Spindletop II Dust Bowl III Stock Market Crash IV Invention of Barbed Wire
4,1,3,2
300

Irrigation systems facilitated

What is the adaptation to the arid environment of this region?

300

Social impacts include

What are 

 

North Texans migrated to California looking for work. The social security system was established.

Dust Bowl – dust storms swept through the Great Plains causing erosion, drought, and destruction of crops.

Texas celebrated its centennial.

400
Confinement
Internment
400
How did the new deal programs change the lives of many Texans?
Thousands found employment building roads and bridges
400
What event threw the United States into WW2
The attack on Pearl Harbor
400
Name one of the 3 decorated soldiers during World War 2 we talked about
Bessie Coleman, Audie Murphy, or Cleto Rodriguez
400
***************DOUBLE JEOPARDY****************** Name the allied powers (4 total not including U.S.)
Britain, Russia, China, France
400

Implemented ways to stop erosion

What are planting trees (Shelter Belt), contour plowing, and terracing?

400

Economic impacts include

What are 

 

Texans involved primarily in agriculture.

 • Funding for education and government services was severely cut.

 Prices for food and other products fell. 

• Oil industry began to increase due to demand.

New Deal programs employed over 100,000 Texans; built and repaired bridges, dams, roads, and parks.

500
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s
Dust bowl
500
What brought the United States out of the great depression?
World War 2
500
Name the Axis Powers(3 total)
Germany, Japan, and Italy
500
Name the President in office who started the New deal programs.
Franklin Roosevelt.
500
What is Franklin Roosevelt's middle name?
Delano
500

The Dust Bowl in Texas was brought about by

What is A severe drought that added to the problem of overproduction as dust storms made the area into a Dust Bowl?; it lasted 7 years.

500

The New Deal provided government regulation for

What are the import/export of agricultural products and the import/export of oil?