11.1 - 11.3
Long period of time with little or no rainfall
Drought
Period of poor economic performance and high unemployment
Depression
Period that the world experienced low economic performance
Great Depression
Wearing away of the earth’s surface
Erosion
Period with high unemployment and low economic performance
Depression
Area of the country that had a drought and massive erosion
Dust Bowl
Money paid to retired workers
Pension
Taking possession of a property when payments can’t be made
Foreclosure
Nicknames given to camps of homeless people in major cities
Hoovervilles
Able to work, but unable to find a job
Unemployment
Government programs designed to end the depression
New Deal
Shares of ownership in a company
Stocks
What event directly led to the great depression?
The stock market crash of 1929
What was happening to the number of people who were unemployed during the depression?
The number of unemployed people were rising
The Great Depression was a time of poor economic performance and high ___ in the U.S.
Unemployment
The U.S. stock market crashed on October 29, 1929. This day was nicknamed…
Black Tuesday
What weather conditions helped caused the Dust Bowl?
Little rain and hot, dry winds
Who was John Nance Garner?
Vice President of the U.S. during the Great Depression
What job did Herbert Hoover have when the Great Depression began?
President of the U.S.
What was a human cause of the Dust Bowl?
Over-grazing of grasslands and overproduction of crops
Which U.S. president came up with the “New Deal“?
Franklin Roosevelt
Though Texas didn’t feel the effects of the Great Depression immediately, eventually the prices of ___ and ___ began to fall.
cotton and oil
Was Sam Rayburn…
A) Vice President of the U.S.
B) Inventor of the first automobile
C) Oil driller who discovered gold in Texas
D) None of the above
D) None of the above
What was a physical effect of the dust storms that hit Texas?
- dirt clogging cars and tractors
- destruction of homes and crops
- health issues for the very old and very young
What were some of the criticisms of the “New Deal”?
- some of the people said that the new deal programs hadn’t done enough
- some people said that the new deal programs had done too much
- some people said that President Roosevelt had grown too powerful