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DEPRESSION
Chapter 21 Section 2
Question | Answer |
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bread line | where charities or local agencies gave food to the poor |
Hooverville | term used ti describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression |
tenant farmer | rural farmers who lost their land but stayed on to work for larger landowners |
Dust Bowl | millions of acres in the Great Plains that were destroyed when dust storms blew away the soil |
Okies | Great Plains farmers forced off their land by the Dust Bowl |
repatriation | policy whereby local, state, and fed. gov. encouraged or coerced Mex. Immigrants (some of them U.S. citizens) to return to Mexico |