Worksheets 1 + 2 _ Webster City US history

Dust Bowl

A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry. causing farmlands to be ruined

How did these events affect the nations workers and businesses?

Businesses began shutting down, which caused those working in the factory to go unemployed

How did Hoover attribute to economic prosperity

Competition between buisnesses

What problem did the availability of easy credit create?

Debt increased due to individuals buying expensive items they could not pay back right away

What are the social implications of Harburgs song?

Depression hit the rich and the poor alike

What other disaster caused the collapse of many farms?

Droughts, Dust Bowl

What impact did the great depression have on employment rates?

Employment Rates dropped severely, leaving many impoverished

tenant farmer

Farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops

How did the dust bowl affect Mexican Americans?

Gave their jobs to white farmers, some forced back to mexico

How did these calamities affect the agricultural industry

Industry declined to the point where it was struggling to stay an industry

Black Tuesday

October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.

How did the Depression -era crops and livestock prices affect farmers?

Prices for both were low, meaning farmers could not make much money off of them

What happened to families who lost their livelihoods in these ways?

Relocate to another area for work

Why did the uneven distribution of wealth contribute to the economic troubles of the US

Rich got richer poor became less poor, rich needed to spend their wealth in order to keep the economy running the way it was, which they didnt

What were the primary causes of the Great Depression?

Stock market crash, bank failures, little money circulating in the nation

Why might americans have invested money in stock rather then putting it into saving accounts?

Stocks were a way to make money much faster

What does Charley Bull suggest about life for people who left home to become Hobos?

That their life was reckless and dangerous

To whom does the "They" in Harburgs song?

The individuals encouraging men to fight in the war

Why did farmers face economic difficulties?

Their products were not selling for as much as they did, and they bought more land and new machines to help which put them in debt

what happened when investors in 1929 lost confidence in the stock market

They sold their stock in order to get back the money they spent on it

What is a bread line?

Where people lined up in order to get free fodd

Hoovervilles

a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.

How did depression take a toll on women and children?

birth rate dropped, women tried to get small jobs

What was the basis for the soaring stock prices during the 1920s

confidence in the stock and the continual buying of stock in order to gain more revenue

What problems might people who were displaced during the great depression have faced?

homelessness, joblessness, troubles in the family

How did unemployment affect unemployed men?

left to look for jobs, became discouraged, felt they let their families down

Okie

nickname for a farmer who left the Dust Bowl in search of work

How were the stock market crash and the collapse of the banking system related?

people pulled money out in order to get their funds back, resulting in the crash