Post War Era (1919-1929)
With the development of this, households across Texas (and the U.S.) tuned into sports broadcasts, news shows, and stations that played music.
Radio
By 1932, some three years after the stock market crashed in 1929, this person, who many Americans blamed for worsening the effects of the Great Depression, was defeated in his bid for re-election to the presidency.
Herbert Hoover
There were several causes of the Dust Bowl including this, which occurs when plants (including grasses) are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time.
Overgrazing
Repealed the 18th Amendment, which had established a national ban on alcohol (Prohibition).
The 21st Amendment
A place for buying and selling stocks, or shares of ownership in a corporation.
Stock market
The Charleston, Bunny Hop, and Fox Trot all emerged during the post-year wars (1919-1929) and were popular forms of this.
Dance
During the Great Depression, the price of this commodity, vital to the Texas economy, fell from $1 per barrel to .08 cents per barrel.
Oil
The Dust Bowl was an environmental and economic disaster that struck this region of the United States.
As part of the New Deal, this government agency was created – it guarantees that deposits made by Americans into American banks would be there, regardless of whether the bank itself failed.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
This federal agency was established to assist struggling farmers during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era. It provided loans, promoted rural rehabilitation, and documented the hardships of rural life through photography.
Farm Security Administration.
A product such as a washing machine, car, or refrigerator bought for personal use.
Consumer good
Elected to the presidency in 1932, during the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt was a Democrat from this state.
A prolonged period of dry weather where there's a lack of precipitation (rain or snow) that causes a water shortage.
Drought
Created in 1935, it would employ roughly 8 million Americans over the course of the next few years and the projects undertaken by this administration were incredibly diverse. It would even go on to hire musicians, actors, and artists.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Served two non-consecutive terms as the governor of Texas: from 1925 to 1927, and from 1933 to 1935. She was the first female governor of Texas.
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
Hidden or secret bars that operated during the Prohibition era (1920-1933) in the United States, when the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol was illegal.
Speakeasy
By 1933, when the Great Depression had reached its lowest point, nearly half of these had failed, wiping out millions of Americans savings.
Banks
The worst of the dust storms that occurred during the Dust Bowl were called these.
"Black blizzards"
This New Deal program established work camps and provided jobs to over two million previously unemployed Americans (usually young men) and was responsible for the creation of many structures and facilities in our nation’s national parks.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Served as FDR’s Vice President from 1933-1941. During his time as VP, this person served as the “liaison man” between the U.S. Congress and the Roosevelt administration.
John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner
Known as the “Jazz Age”, a period of societal change during the 1920s, it is also often referred to as this.
The Roaring Twenties
A massive movement of African Americans from the South to the North between 1916 and 1970. Driven by a desire for better economic opportunities, a chance to escape segregation and racial violence in the South.
The Great Migration
One-third of Texas farmers and ranchers in this region of Texas received charity relief funds during the Dust Bowl.
The Panhandle (North Texas)
One of the most important programs of the New Deal, this Act would provide disabled and/or elderly Americans with a monthly payment in order to help prevent them from living in poverty.
Social Security Act (SSA)
Shantytowns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after the person that was president of the United States during the onset (beginning) of the Great Depression and who was widely blamed for it.
Hoovervilles