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#2 Great Depression/Dust Bowl
By Kristy Fulton
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Question 1
1.
What did the government plant to help combat the effects of the Dust Bowl?
trees
hedges
ground cover
flower
Question 2
2.
What is the title for dark skies created when strong wind pick up and carry large amounts of topsoil?
Black Blizzard
Black Dirt
Blackout
Question 3
3.
What carried dust all the way to the East Coast creating Dust Storms?
breezes
winds
storms
Question 4
4.
Find the causes of the Dust Bowl.
rotation
overplanting
Question 5
5.
Where was the Dust Bowl located?
North
Mideast
Midwest
East
Question 6
6.
What were shantytowns built by the unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s?
Vernalvilles
Trumanvilles
Rooseveltvilles
Hoovervilles
Question 7
7.
What was the name given to the boys and men who rode the rails?
Scavengers
Hoboes
Unwanted
Mob
Question 8
8.
What was the name of the migration for the "Okies" and "Arkies" to California?
Labor Migration
Great Depression Migration
Dust Bowl Migration
Question 9
9.
A series of reforms enacted by Franklin Roosevelt with the goal to end the Great Depression.
Gain Jobs
New Deal
Reforms
Question 10
10.
Money paid by the employee and employer
Food tax
Social Security tax
Income tax
Vehicle tax
overuse of the land
drought
high winds