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
