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TX24 - Great Depression + WW2 [DB2]

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

FACT: During World War II, each of these endeavors were built in Texas to help supply war items and support the efforts of the U.S.

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  • Building these places led to the creation of new jobs, which gave a boost to the Texas -

a)

government

b)

geography

c)

society

d)

economy

2.
  • * Stock Market crash causes an economic downturn

  • * Overuse of land, drought, and high winds cause dust storms

  • * 750,000 Americans fight against Nazis in Europe and Japanese in the Pacific

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  • These are all items that happen during the era called ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
Great Depression and World War II
Civil War and Reconstruction
Cotton, Cattle, and Railroads
Age of Oil and Progressive Era
3.

Organize these events from the "Great Depression and World War II" into the right PEGS category. WHEN COMPLETED, THERE SHOULD BE TWO [2] ITEMS IN EACH CATEGORY

Categorize the following

a U.S. President implements new policies to help American citizens

people lose money when the stock market crashes

overuse of the land combined with wind erosion causes damaging dust storms

hungry Americans wait in long soup lines to survive

Americans elect Franklin Roosevelt to be President FOUR times

businesses close and people lose their jobs

the population of Texas goes down as people leave the state and head west, looking for work

poor people get support from local churches and charities

P - Political
E - Economic
G - Geographic
S - Social
4.
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Match the following TERMS to their brief definition:

a)

INDUSTRIAL-IZATION

1.

economy moving from farming to factories

b)

ECONOMY

2.

buying and selling goods and services

c)

STOCK MARKET

CRASH

3.

event that started the Great Depression

d)

DUST BOWL

4.

caused farm loss and migration from TX

e)

SUPPLY and DEMAND

5.

factors determing the price of items

5.

Examples of Texas's diversified ​ (a)   of the early 1900s:

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  • * ​ (b)   farming

  • * ​ (c)   ranching

  • * ​ (d)   drilling

Choose from the below words
cotton
cattle
oil
economy
6.

Read the passage provided.

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  • IN YOUR OWN WORDS: summarize what caused the Great Depression

4 lines
7.

What event caused the effects described and shown here:

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  • * ECONOMIC - loss of farms due to foreclosure

  • * SOCIAL - population decrease in Texas

  • * GEOGRAPHIC - wind erosion, new trees planted

8.

Industrialization: an economy moving from agriculture to manufacturing goods

Industrialization often leads to a rapid population increase in cities, which is known as -

a)

colonization

b)

urbanization

c)

regionalization

d)

ruralization

9.

Which THREE [3] of these answers are reasons why people might migrate from the countryside to cities in Texas during the 1930s and 1940s?

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  • YOU MUST CHOOSE THREE [3] CORRECT ANSWERS

a)

discovery of gold buried under Texas cities

b)

new jobs that are available in factories

c)

crop failure due to dust storms

d)

farms foreclosed on when bank loans couldn't be paid

e)

new city residents were given $5000 as a reward for moving to the city

10.

Which area of this textbox shows that John Nance Garner was "Speaker of the House" for two years before becoming Vice President in 1933.