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babies, 18 health problems, 12, 13, 19 radios, 4, 23
bankruptcy, 7 heat wave, 17 rain, lack of, 12–17
banks/banking, 4, 6, 26 high school students, 26 Red Cross, The, 10
Black Sunday dust storm, homelessness, 11, 12, 20 relief agencies, 10
14, 16, 29 Hoover, Herbert, 10, 11 road construction, 25, 27
bridges, 25, 27 Hoovervilles, 11, 21 Roaring Twenties, 5
building construction, 25, 27 hunger, 13 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 11, 12,
24, 26, 27, 29
children, 20 income, 7
Civilian Conservation Corps average, 12 Salvation Army, 10
(CCC), 25, 27 national, 28 savings, 4, 6
clothes, 22 Indian Emergency Conservation Scrabble, 22, 23
college students, 26, 27 Work, 27 starvation, 13
conservation projects, 25 installment plans, 4 stock market crash, 5, 6, 11
Coolidge, Calvin, 22 interest, 4
credit, 4, 5, 6 investments, 5 Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA), 25, 29
dams, 25, 29 jobs, 7, 8, 11, 20, 29. thrift gardens, 22
deaths, 13, 17 See also unemployment timeline, 29
debt and the New Deal, 24–27
government, 24 unemployment, 7, 8, 11, 22,
personal, 4, 7 luxury items, 4 24, 29. See also jobs
deflation, 6
divorce, 18, 19 malnutrition, 13 work. See jobs
drought, 12–17, 29 market crash. See stock Works Progress Administration,
Dust Bowl, 14–17, 29 market crash 27
dust storms, 14, 15, 16–17, 29 marriage, 18 World War II, 27
middle class, 5
economy, U.S., 4, 6, 9, 27 monopolies, 9 YMCA, 10
education, 26 Monopoly (game), 23
entertainment, 22–23 movies, 23

families, 18–23 National Youth Administration
farmers, 25 (NYA), 26
Fireside Chats, 26 Native Americans, 27
food, 12–13, 16–17, 22, 25, 29 natural resources, 27
New Deal, 24–27, 29
games, 23
gardens, 22 orphans/orphanages, 20
Geiger, Robert, 14
Great Depression, 6–11 potlucks, 22
end of, 27, 29 POUR (President’s Organization
entertainment during, 22–23 of Unemployment Relief), 10
impact on families and poverty, 28
everyday life, 18–23 prices, 12–13, 16
introduction, 4–5 protests, 9
timeline, 29 Public Works Administration, 29
Great Plains, 16
Guthrie, Woody, 17

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