Children of the Dustbowl

Why did the families leave their farms?

• Racism

• Floods

• War

• Their land turned to dust.

Okies came from which state?

• Alabama

• Arkansas

• California

• Oklahoma

What did Leo Hart want to build for the Okie children?

• a hospital

• a new school

• a waterpark

• new homes

How did Leo Hart feel about the way Okie children were treated?

• angry

• He didn't really care.

• sad

• hopeless

One clothing item worn by Okie children were

• chucks

• hoodies

• baggy overalls held up with rope

• cowboy hats

Conditions relating to public health, especially clean drinking water and the removal of waste

• rejection

• shiftless

• epidemic

• sanitation

When they left Weedpatch Camp to find work, the Okies faced ridicule, ___, and shame.

• masonry

• rejection

• shiftless

• epidemic

person characterized by laziness and lack of ambition

• rejection

• opposition

• epidemic

• shiftless

Widespread occurrence of infectious disease

• opposition

• epidemic

• sanitation

• rejection

The __to the Okie children angered Leo Hart

• opposition

• sanitation

• epidemics

• shiftless