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Assignment:
Answer the following questions:
1. What are the names of the shacks or makeshift houses that poor people lived in? (There is more than one answer; click all that apply)
2. What happened on October 29, 1929?
3. What is the single name for all of President Roosevelt's government programs that would try to end the Great Depression?
4. What was the period of drought, dust storms, and high winds of the Great Plains during the 1930s called?
5. What major event marked the end of the Roaring 20's?
6. Which group helped build dams to provide cheap electric power to seven southern states?
7. Which protest group did President Hoover respond to with the U.S. military? (hint: they wanted their promised bonuses)
8. Which state did farmers typically travel to when their crops were in poor condition and they had to leave?
9. What is the name of the group of young men that cleared lands, plant trees, and strengthen riverbanks?
10. What was one cause of the Great Depression?
11. What is a tariff?
12.What was the average percentage of people in the United States who were unemployed during the Great Depression?