Great Depression

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What was the event during the Great Depression characterized by a severe drought in the Great Plains, where strong prairie winds picked up topsoil and spread dust everywhere, causing many farm families to move west?

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Dust Bowl

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Who was President of the US when the stock market crashed and Depression began?

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Herbert Hoover

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What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

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Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.

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The photograph best illustrates which impact of the Great Depression upon Americans?

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Large numbers of people were, hungry and unemployed

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What were the cardboard shacks that people forced to live in public parks called?

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Hoovervilles

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Speculation

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to buy or sell stocks or land, hoping to gain huge profits quickly

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On what day did the "bottom fall out" of the stock market becoming one of the leading causes of the Great Depression?

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October 29, 1929

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October 29, 1929- Day with record number of sales in the market is commonly known as

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Black Tuesday

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what direction did most people move in the U.S. due to the Dust Bowl?

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West

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WWI veterans marched to Washington DC wanting to pass legislation to get vet bonus early ($1000.00) instead of waiting until 1945.

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Bonus Army