Great depression 3

Question 1

Who were most commonly hobos?

Answer 1

Young men.

Question 2

What is the difference of hobos and homeless?

Answer 2

Hobos - Move from town to town in search of food and shelter

Homeless - tend to stay in one town because they are sustained.

Question 3

How did hobos communicate?

Answer 3

They had a secret language of hand symbols.

Question 4

Fish on a trash can is a sign of what

Answer 4

sign of food

Question 5

What is the dust bowl?

Answer 5

The event occurred in 1932 when the rain stopped falling in the great plain region.

Question 6

What did farmers tend to uproot?

Answer 6

natural prairie grasses who wanted to plant their own grass.

Question 7

What did prairie grasses prevent?

Answer 7

Wind erosion

Question 8

Man made disaster or natural?
Dust bowl

Answer 8

Man made

Question 9

What does a dust bowl do?

Answer 9

Swept up dirt and carried miles east.

Question 10

niHow did the dust bowl affect farmers?

Answer 10

It cost them more money and their best topsoil was blown away and low nutrient soil was all that was left.