9-2 Life Dur Great DepressionVersion en ligne

USH.4.5 - Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and its social and cultural impacts.

par Lance Hiles
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Starts with A

Federal officials returned southwestern Mexicans to Mexico, & about half were ___ citizens.

Starts with B

Homeless hoboes walked, hitchhiked, or rode the rails, sneaking past railroad police to slip into open ____ ____ .

Starts with C

In 1932 of the Great Depression, 30,000 _____ went out of business

Starts with D

1930s, ___ hit the Great Plains, & soil/moisture had no root anchors, so the soil turned to dust, creating the Dust Bowl.

Starts with E

Hard times of the 1930s led Americans to ___ through entertainment, scraping up money for the movies or listening to radio programs with family.

Starts with F

Jobless people stood in breadlines for ___ food

Starts with G

Great Plains topsoil is held in place by prairie ___ with deep roots that preserve moisture in times of low rainfall.

Starts with H

People lost homes and lived in shacks they called ___ , because president Hoover was not helping.

Contains I

Photographers roamed the nation with the new 35-___ camera, and in 1936 TIME publisher Henry Luce introduced “LIFE”, a photojournalism magazine.

Starts with J

Grapes of Wrath was about some migrant farmers called the ___ Family, who lost farm in Oklahoma and traveled to California.

Starts with K

Jobless people went hungry, or when possible they lined up outside soup ___

Starts with L

Dust Bowl blew the dry earth & buried crops & ___ in the dust,

Starts with M

Dorothea Lange’s ___ ___ depicts a sad & weary woman with seven children who had just sold her car's tires to buy food.

Starts with N

Hoovervilles were ___ of shacks put up by people who could not pay their mortgage & lost their homes

Starts with O

Great Plains farmers lost land to banks & headed to California, & since most were from Oklahoma, they were called ___

Starts with P

Margaret Bourke-White’s most famous ___ was of poor African Americans waiting in front of a billboard that read, “Highest Standard of Living”

Starts with R

The ___ offered information & entertainment, as millions of people listened to comedian Jack Benny & ”the Adventures of Green Hornet”.

Starts with S

Daytime dramas continued each day, and since sponsors were makers of laundry supplies, the shows were nicknamed ___ operas.

Starts with T

Dust Bowl happened because a drought turned the ___ to dust, which then blew away.

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Steinbeck wrote “The Grapes of Wrath” describing the experiences of migrants who headed to California after losing farm to the ___ Bowl.

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60 million Americans went to the ___ each week, where the Marx Brothers amused audiences in “Animal Crackers”.

Starts with W

____ blew dry earth & blackening the sky, burying crops & livestock in dust, and sometimes suffocating humans & animals

Contains X

___ were targeted for deportation because they were the most visible and because it was cheaper than shipping immigrants to Europe

Contains Y

John Steinbeck focused on how the depression was the result of an economic ___ as well as the importance of family in helping people survive.

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Photographers & the new 35-millimeter camera took off in the 1930s, partly because Henry Luce introduced “LIFE”, a weekly photojournalism ___ .