(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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I-- Millions of Americans are out of work.
B-National Industrial Recovery Act - Develops rules for doing business
B-- Many businesses and factories fail.
N-Hardships faced by women - faced difficulty finding jobs; men usually hired before women.
B-relief program - government program to help the needy
G-- Families break up and people suffer
B-Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board -With the stock market crash and the fears of further economic woes, individuals from all classes stopped purchasing items. This then led to a reduction in the number of items produced and thus a reduction
I-Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Insures savings accounts in banks approved by the government.
G-89 million acres of land were severely damaged or destroyed.
I-Black Tuesday - day the stock market crashed, signaling the start of the Great Depression
B-Black Thursday - The first day of the depression. The initial day the markets took a downturn.
I-During the Depression, schools across the Plains sent students home because of the dust storms. Some school administrators were worried about what might happen to the students' health. There had been cases of "dust pneumonia" where dust clogged u
N-Hardships faced by Native Americans - faced terrible poverty; however, Congress passes new laws giving them more control over their own affairs.
G-Effects of the Great Depression - - Many banks fail.
B-By 1932, U.S. manufacturing output had fallen to 54 percent of its 1929 level, and unemployment had risen to between 12 and 15 million workers, or 25-30 percent of the work force.
I-- Banks make loans that borrowers cannot pay back.
N-Many countries wanted to protect themselves from the chaos in the economy, so they decided to make more laws restricting trade and reinforce the ones that were already in place.
N-- After the stock market crash, many businesses cannot find people who will invest in their growth.
G-Hawley-Smoot Tariff - 1930 legislation under Pres. Hoover that raised import duties by as much as 50%, worsening the worldwide depression.
N-Hooverville - group of shacks in which homeless lived during the Great Depression
N-In 1928, the top 1% earned 29.94% of the nation's income (about 24.5 mil.)
G-Hardships faced by African Americans - often first to lose jobs; faced continued discrimination; a few leaders became advisers to President Roosevelt.
B-It was a period of protests and hunger marches — and unionism spread like wildfire — but many people suffered quietly, ashamed of their poverty.
B-migrant worker - person who moves from one region to another in search of work
B-During the next three years stock prices in the United States continued to fall, until by late 1932 they had dropped to only about 20 percent of their value in 1929.
G-Installment Buying - A system by which a buyer pays for a thing in regular installments while enjoying the use of it.
I-Hardships faced by Asian Americans - faced discrimination; competition over jobs leads to calls that they leave the country.
I-Social Security - Government support the elderly
I-Herbert Hoover - The 31st president of the United States (1929-1933), whose term was notably marked by the stock market crash of 1929 and the beginnings of the Great Depression
N-Great Depression - The stock market crash of October 1929 brought the economic prosperity of the 1920s to a symbolic end. The Great Depression was a worldwide economic crisis that in the United States was marked by widespread unemployment, near
G-bankrupt - unable to pay debts
B-buying on margin - practice that allows people to buy stock with a down payment of a portion of the value
G-Dust Bowl - region in the central Great Plains that was hit by a severe drought
G-Dust storms were not new to the region in the 1930s, but a number of demographic and cultural factors were new. First there were a lot more people living in the region in the 1930s than there had been in the 1880s.
N-In previous depressions, farmers were usually safe from the severe effects of a depression because they could at least feed themselves. Unfortunately, during the Great Depression, the Great Plains were hit hard with both a drought and horrendous
N-by 1933, 11,000 of the United States' 25,000 banks had failed. Signaled the beginning of government involvement in the economy and in society as a whole.
B-Root Causes of the Great Depression - - Factories and farms produce more goods than people can buy.
B-bank holiday - closing of banks four days during the Great Depression
I-Summary of the Dust Bowl - The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the Twentieth Century anywhere in the world.
I-Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to other states, almost all to the West. The drought that helped cause the dust bowl lasted seven years, from 1933 to 1940.
I-soup kitchen - place where food is provided to the needy at little or no charge
B-Hardships faced by Mexican Americans - faced discrimination; some forced to return to Mexico.
N-Okies - migrated person from oklahoma
N-- Many are homeless and hungry.
B-Free!
G-Many factors led to the Dust Bowl. The increased demand for wheat during World War I, the development of new mechanized farm machinery along with falling wheat prices in the 1920s, led to millions of acres of native grassland being replaced by hea
