Social Effects on the Depression – Flashcards
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What is a term to describe a makeshift homeless shelter that was meant to mock the president?
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Hooverville
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What is a term to describe the dust storm in central and southern great plains in the 1930's?
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Dust Bowl
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What kind of people live in a Hooverville?
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Homeless
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What was another way that people found shelter other than living in Hoovervilles?
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Moving in with family
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What was the most severe kind of storm of the dry years of the Dust Bowl?
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Black Blizzards
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What president said "no one care has starved"?
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President Hoover
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Other than an economic crisis, what other crisis was there at the time?
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Environmental
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What kind of families suffered a low crop prices that cut their income?
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Farm families
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What kind of people became drifters, going from one "hobo jungle" to another?
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Homeless and jobless
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Who was hit worse by the Great Depression?
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People at the bottom of the economic ladder
