Events

Question 1

Dust bowl

Answer 1

An area of the Great Plains of the United States that suffered severely from wind erosion during the 1930s.

Question 2

Dust bowl (causes)

Answer 2

Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices

Question 3

Dust bowl (effects)

Answer 3

crops would rot and die, no income for families in this time of need, farm animals suffocated from all of the dust, and humans died from inhaling the dust

Question 4

Harley-Smoot tariff act

Answer 4

a law passed by Congress in 1930 to raise the tariffs on imported goods in order to protect U.S. businesses and farmers. Ended up triggering a global trade war

Question 5

Bonus army incident

Answer 5

A group of thousands of World War I veterans who traveled to Washington, D.C., in 1932 to request early payment of a retirement bonus to help them through the hard economic times of the Great Depression. Hoover didn’t pay them, and removed them by force.

Question 6

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 6

a political scandal in which U.S. secretary of the interior Albert Fall leased national oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to two companies that had bribed him