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What years did the dust bowl take place?

• 1910s

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1950s

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The Dust Bowl took place in the

• The Costal Plains

• The Great Plains

• California

• South Texas

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The effect of the Dust Bowl on farmers was made even worse by...

• The Great Depression

• The New Deal

• The Ice Age

• The discovery of oil

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Why was life more difficult for farmers during the Dust Bowl?

• Their crops were dying because of the dust

• Animals had no grass to eat

• Had little access to water.

• All of the above

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What did many farmers in Texas do during the Dust Bowl?

• They moved West to seek jobs

• Started businesses in Texas

• They had to grow cotton instead.

• Nothing changed for farmers in Texas

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The phrase “buying on the margin” means

• borrowing money to buy stocks.

• buying stocks without your spouse knowing.

• having a secret ledger where stock purchases were recorded.

• borrowing from one stock’s value to buy others.

Which of the following statements BEST explains the origins of the Great Depression?

• The stock market itself, and the way that people could buy stocks on the margin, was the single cause of the crash that led to the Depression.

• International bankers carefully planned the Great Depression in order to buy devalued and cheap stocks to make a profit from later.

• Overproduction of goods, banking failures, and a runaway stock market created a perfect storm.

• Government bureaucrats tinkering with the free market system systematically unbalanced capitalism and caused it to wreck.

One limitation of the original Social Security Act was that

•  it did not apply to naturalized American citizens.

•   it lacked support from Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, thereby alienating many women.

• it began at age seventy, and most Americans did not live that long.

• it did not include domestic workers, thereby shutting out many African Americans.

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One direct effect of the Army troops’ attack on the Bonus Marchers was that

     

• it further undermined President Hoover’s reputation.

•   it led to the passage of the Social Security Act.

•   it resulted in the government’s immediate payment of their bonuses.

•   it resulted in the removal of General MacArthur from military command.

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Dorothea Lange was a famous 

• Shakespearean actress.

• photographer.

• photographer.

• doctor

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