WorksheetsTX24 - Great Depression + WW2 [DB2]
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 15mins
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 -
government
geography
society
economy
* 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)
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
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
Match the following TERMS to their brief definition:
INDUSTRIAL-IZATION
economy moving from farming to factories
ECONOMY
buying and selling goods and services
STOCK MARKET
CRASH
event that started the Great Depression
DUST BOWL
caused farm loss and migration from TX
SUPPLY and DEMAND
factors determing the price of items
Examples of Texas's diversified (a) of the early 1900s:
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* (b) farming
* (c) ranching
* (d) drilling
Read the passage provided.
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS: summarize what caused the Great Depression
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
the Great Depression
the Dust Bowl
World War II
Spindletop oil discovery
Industrialization: an economy moving from agriculture to manufacturing goods
Industrialization often leads to a rapid population increase in cities, which is known as -
colonization
urbanization
regionalization
ruralization
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
discovery of gold buried under Texas cities
new jobs that are available in factories
crop failure due to dust storms
farms foreclosed on when bank loans couldn't be paid
new city residents were given $5000 as a reward for moving to the city
Which area of this textbox shows that John Nance Garner was "Speaker of the House" for two years before becoming Vice President in 1933.
