The Dirty 30's (1930s)
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supah on April 30, 2009
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The Dirty 30's Miniunit
Mr. Lickteig
Fort Riley Middle School
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Mr. Lickteig FRMS, FRMS Team 9 Gurus
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 drought | long periods of time without rain |
| sodbusting | breaking up the soil, plowing as much as possible |
| stubble mulching | leaving the stalk or stem of the plant in the ground to prevent erosion |
| terracing | building steps into the hills and creating different levels |
| contour farming | farming along the natural landscape, usually in curves |
| crop rotation | cycling through different kinds of crops to restore nutrients to the soil (wheat to corn to fallow) |
| fallow | leaving a field bare for a year to restore nutrients to the soil |
| relief programs | government run groups to help people during the Dust Bowl and Depression |
| Black Sunday | nickname for the worst dust storm |
| irrigation | manmade ways of watering fields |
| shelterbelt | a row of trees planted to help block the wind, also prevented erosion |
| wind and water | the main causes of erosion |
| Dust Bowl | a period of drought and high winds in the Midwest from 1930 to 1936 |
| poor farming techniques | man made reason for the Dust Bowl |
| soil conservation | ways of perserving the quality of dirt |
| bull market | a period when stocks are going UP, $$$ |
| bear market | a period when stocks are going down, bad for the economy |
| speculation | predicting / gambling that a stock will be valuable |
| buying on margin | taking out loans to buy stocks |
| recession | a "mini" depression, a period of slow economic activity |
| depression | a long period of slow to no economic activity |
| boom | a rise in stocks and economic activity |
| slump | a slow down in stocks and economic activity |
| recovery | the plan put forth to fix economies during times of depression & recession |
| Franklin Roosevelt | president during the middle and end of the Great Depression, created the Second New Deal |
| Herbert Hoover | president at the start of the Depression, thought that it would fix itself |
| hoovervilles | nickname for the shanty towns during the Great Depression (towns of shacks) |
| Second New Deal | the plan put forth by FDR to end the Depression, created jobs and used government money |
| WPA | organization formed by the Second New Deal that put unemployed to work fixing roads, building schools, airports, libraries, etc. |
| World War II and Second New Deal | the two things that ended the Great Depression |
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