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US2 Midterm
The Great Depression
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dust Bowl | 1930 to 1936 severe dust storms,caused by severe drought. |
| Hooverville | towns of makeshift houses built by homeless people during the great depression. |
| Father Divine | Afterican American minister; his Harlem Soup Kitchen fed the hungry during the Great Depression. |
| Scottsboro Boys | 9 African American youths accused of unfairly tried and convicted of raping2 white women in Alabama in 1931,gained national support and recieved new trials by order of the Surpreme Court/ |
| Socialists | A person who advocates the principal of socialism. |
| 21st Amendment | United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition. |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Import tax levied in 1930,the highest in US History;produced the opposite of it's intended effect when international trade slowed. |
| Bonus Army | Group of WWI veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 asking to receive their pension bonus early. |