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DEPRESSION/DUST
Great Depression/Dust Bowl
Term | Definition |
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4 causes of Great Depression | bank failures, high tariffs, overspending, stock market crash |
Social Security | government payments to retired or disabled workers |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the US during Great Depression and World War II |
Herbert Hoover | President of the US from 1923-1933 leader of the US in the beginning of the Great Depression |
World War II | ended the Great Depression |
1929 | Stock Market Crash |
trees | government planted these to help combat the effects from the Dust Bowl |
1930s | Dust Bowl |
10 years | Dust Bowl lasted |
Okies | People Oklahoma |
Black Blizzards | dark skies created when strong winds pick up and carry large amounts of topsoil |
winds | carried dust all the way to the East Coast creating Dust Storms |
dust | soil is extremely dry |
causes of Dust Bowl | drought, overuse of the land, high winds |
Midwest | Dust Bowl located |
Hoovervilles | a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s |
Hoboes | men and boys who rode the rails looking for work |
Dust Bowl Migration | the migration into California of thousands of displaced "Okies" and "Arkies" from Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas that were hit hard by dry topsoil and high winds that created blinding dust storm |
New Deal | a series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression. |
Social Security tax | paid by employee and employer |