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9-2 Life Dur Great Depression
Author :
Lance Hiles
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Federal officials returned southwestern Mexicans to Mexico, & about half were ___ citizens.
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Homeless hoboes walked, hitchhiked, or rode the rails, sneaking past railroad police to slip into open ___
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In 1932 of the Great Depression, 30,000 _____ went out of business
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1930s, ___ hit the Great Plains, & soil/moisture had no root anchors, so the soil turned to dust.
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Hard times of the 1930s led Americans to ___ through entertainment, scraping up money for the movies or listening to radio programs with family.
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Jobless people stood in stood in breadlines for ___ food
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Great Plains topsoil is held in place by prairie ___ with deep roots that preserve moisture in times of low rainfall.
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People lost homes and lived in shacks they called ___ , because president Hoover did not helping.
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Photographers roamed the nation with the new 35-___ camera, and in 1936 TIME publisher Henry Luce introduced “LIFE”, a photojournalism magazine.
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Grapes of Wrath was about some migrant farmers called the ___ Family, who lost farm in Oklahoma and traveled to California.
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Jobless people went hungry, or when possible they lined up outside soup ___
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Dust Bowl blew the dry earth & buried crops & ___ in the dust,
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Dorothea Lange’s ___ ___ depicts a sad & weary woman with seven children who had just sold her car's tires to buy food.
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Hoovervilles were ___ of shacks put up by people who could not pay their mortgage & lost their homes
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Great Plains farmers lost land to banks & headed to California, & since most were from Oklahoma, they were called ___
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Margaret Bourke-White’s most famous ___ was of poor African Americans waiting in front of a billboard that read, “Highest Standard of Living”
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Dear Student, please press the letter ' q ' and press enter.
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The ___ offered information & entertainment, as millions of people listened to comedian Jack Benny & ”the Adventures of Green Hornet”.
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Daytime dramas continued each day, and since sponsors were makers of laundry supplies, the shows were nicknamed ___ operas.
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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”.
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____ blew dry earth & blackening the sky, burying crops & livestock in dust, and sometimes suffocating humans & animals
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___ were targeted because they were the most visible and because it was cheaper than shipping immigrants to Europe
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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 ___ .