Chapter 17 Part 1

From 1917-1945, Mississippians went through two world wars and a period of great ____________________ in the 1930s.

pgs. 258-259

• poverty

• Red Cross

• natural

• women

One Mississippi senator was against the U.S. getting involved in World War 1. His last name was _____________.

pgs. 259-260

• Vancleave

• Vardaman

• Veronica

• Var

During World War 1, several military bases were built in Mississippi. the one near Hattiesburg is Camp _____________.

pgs. 260-262

• Silver

• Shelly

• Shelby

• Sally

To help the country during World War 1, many people in our state planted vegetable gardens called __________ gardens.

pgs. 260-261

• grand

• cotton

• victory

• winning

During the same time, man Mississippians left to go to work in the North because they could get jobs that had better __________.

pgs. 260-262

• time off

• vacations

• wages

• jobs

During the 1920s the insect that destroyed so much of Mississippi's cotton crop was the __________.

pgs. 261-262

• ants

• bees

• boll weevils

• boll beetles

The rivers in the Mississippi Delta often flooded. to hold back the water, _____________ were built.

pgs. 263-264

• beaver dams

• walls

• levees

• fences

In the spring of 1927, the ___________ River flooded the Delta.

pgs. 263-264

• Pascagoula

• Hattiesburg

• Mississippi

• Arkansas

The levee broke in 1927 and water rushed through the break. In the Delta, 2, 722,00 acres of land were flooded. The flood was on of America's __________ natural disasters.

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• worst

• best

• bad

• greatest

After the flood took places, thousands of people had to get help from the ______________.

263-264

• North

• other farmers

• Mississippi's Government

• Red Cross