Great Depression/Dust Bowl

The 1920s were known as the .....

• Raging 20s
• Great Raging 20s
• Roaring 20s
• Ridiculous 20s

By making poor investment choices and bad decisions, banking institutions were another factor in causing the Great Depression.

• True
• False

Following the 1929 Stock Market crash...

• There was investments in overseas countries 
• The stock market was closed
• President Hoover resigned 
• The country went into Great Depression

Why do much of the Great Plains become a "Dust Bowl" in the late 1930s?

• Large dust storms and misuse of land
• Ruined irrigation in the area
• Too many farming in a desert region
• Farmers couldn't afford to grow crops

Most of the Dust Bowl families moved... 

• North
• South
• East
• West

What is another name for the Stock Market Crash?

• Black Friday
• Taco Tuesday
• Black Tuesday
• Throwback Thursday

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

When did the Stock Market crash?

• October 31, 1929
• September 29, 1931
• August 29, 1991
• October 29, 1929

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

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• William McKinley

Many people came to this region to grow

• wheat.
• corn.
• soybeans.
• barley.

Dusters carried off

• houses.
• farm animals.
• topsoil.
• very small children.