Ch. 22.2 Flashcards
Who lived on her parents North Dakota farm when the stock market crash in 1929 and the Great Depression hit?
Ann Marie Low
What were little towns consisting of shacks called?
Shantytowns
What offered free or low-cost food?
Soup kitchens
What were lines of people waiting to receive food provided by charitable organizations or public agencies called?
Bread lines
Who’s unemployment rates were higher and we’re the lowest paid?
African-Americans and Latinos
How many African-Americans died by lynching 1933?
24
Where were Mexicans and Mexican Americans mainly targets at? What did whites demand be done with them?
Those living in the Southwest
Latinos be deported or expelled from the country
What was one advantage of living in rural areas over city life?
Farmers could grow food for their family
Between 1929-1930 to about how farms were lost in foreclosure?
400,000
What is the process by which mortgage holders take back property if it owners have not made payments?
Foreclosure
What is the drought that began in early 1930s that wreaked havoc on the Great Plains called?
The Dust Bowl
What was the negatively used word for migrants that went to California to escape the Dust Bowl?
Okies
When money was tight families entertain themselves by staying at home and doing what?
Playing board games such as Monopoly, invented in 1933, and listening to the radio
What do we call people who wander the country, hitching rides on railroad boxcars and sleeping under bridges, as many as 300,000 of them Great Depression?
Hoboes
What were cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor?
Direct relief
