Great Depression & Texas

What hurt Texas farmers during the Great Depression?

• Mechanization (tractors & other machines)

• Airplanes

• Spindletop

• The Great Storm

How did the New Deal benefit Texans?

• It gave the farmers money for nothing.

• It provided jobs through CCC and WPA.

• It gave them a deal on cotton.

• It helped them find new water.

When did the Stock Market crash?

• January 10, 1901

• October 24, 1929

• March 2, 1836

• December 7, 1941

Why were Mexican Americans sent to Mexico?

• To open resorts for vacations

• To increase the number of Anglos in Texas

• Mexico had jobs available

• To free up jobs for needy citizens - reducing unemployment

Where did many people migrate to looking for jobs?

• California

• Virginia

• Oklahoma

• Florida

Why were women not hired by businesses?

• They were not smart enough to work.

• They were thought to be taking money away from a man.

• They were not strong enough.

• This is false, every business hired women to work.

What caused the Dust Bowl?

• Farmers planting too much grass.

• The completion of the Hoover Dam

• Migration from California to Texas

• Drought & soil erosion

What is NOT an effect of the Dust Bowl?

• Many families moved to California

• Farms in the Great Plains failed

• NASCAR was created

• People died of dust pneumonia

Black Tuesday refers to...

• the day the stock market crash

• the shopping day before Thanksgiving

• the day the slaves were freed

• the day when Texas vote

Who became the United States president during the Great Depression?

• Herbert Hoover

• Harry S Truman

• Calvin Coolidge

• Franklin D Roosevelt