WWI, Great Depression, Dust Bowl Vocabulary/Review Test Wednesday, April 5th
Degrade- to treat someone with disrespect
Inflicted- to cause something unpleasant or painful
Privileged- to have special rights or advantages
Voluntarily- to do something of free will
Negotiation- to try to come to an agreement about an issue
Conscience- a person’s inner voice or feeling that guides their behavior
oppressed - to treat a person or group in a cruel or unfair way
Urbanization- the process of forming towns and cities
Vintage- something classic or made a long time ago
Great Depression- a period of economic crisis and low business activity
Dust Bowl- an area of land where crops were lost due to drought and caused by windstorms
Industrialization- the development of manufacturing of goods
Demonstration- a public meeting or march protesting or expressing views on an issue
Circumstances- a condition or fact that affects a situation
Retaliating- to get revenge against someone
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900/From Project
What caused the devastation of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900?
How many lives were lost?
How did this event change the way people were warned about Hurricanes?
Ch 9. Lesson 1​
​ World War I
What countries made up the Allied Powers and Central Powers?
Allied Powers: _​United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, & Italy​_
Central Powers: _​Germany, Turkey, Austria-Hungary​_
Texas in WWI
How WWI impacted life in Texas
More than​ _450_​ women served as ​_nurses_​ in Europe.
Training camps for soldiers were located in several cities in Texas including: ​Waco, Houston,
San Antonio, Fort Worth and Leon Springs.
Pilot training taught over ​ 1,500​ men how to fly and many more learned to be airplane mechanics.
Marjorie Stinson​_, founded the Stinson School of Flying
Food and supplies were ​conserved​ or limited in use to have enough for soldiers and the U.S.
Ways Texans helped with the war was by _​conserving food, grow own vegetables, got jobs that helped
the war, women went to work, raised livestock, work for groups such as Red Cross, bought liberty bonds.
By the end of WWI more than ​5,000​_ Texans had died.
Women and African American Rights
Women were fighting for their _​right​_ to vote, called suffrage. They won their right to vote in Texas in
_​1918​_ and later in 1920, the United States gave consent in the _​19th​_ Amendment.
African Americans were still treated unfairly based on ​prejudice​, a strong opinion formed without facts.
_​Ma Ferguson​_ and other Texans helped defeat groups such as the KKK, who didn’t want African
Americans to have the same rights. She later became governor in 1924.
Bessie Coleman​_ was the first African American pilot from Atlanta, TX.
The 1920s
After WWI, people’s views on women were changing and businesses were growing.
The ​Free Enterprise​_ system or economic system where people are free to buy and sell goods and services
with little control by the government, helped in developing new businesses.
A good economy meant people were buying the latest inventions such as _​radios, telephones, and
refrigerators​_
It also meant that new technology and oil made it easier to buy automobiles and oil refineries. Texans
owned more than ​1,000,000​ cars and trucks and paved highways allowed more travel and new businesses
such as _​gas stations and hotels or motels​_.
The 1920s were known as the _​Roaring​ Twenties and the ​Jazz​ Age. People were looking for new things
to do and ways to have fun.
Ch 9. Lesson 2​
​ The Great Depression and Dust Bowl
Since business was booming in the 1920s, people bought _​stocks​_ or a share of ownership in a company
and hoped to make a _​profit​_.
Unfortunately, business started slowing down and the stock market went down too. People lost their jobs
and looked to _​charities​_ for help. Those are organizations that help people in need.
Many people who lost their jobs, or were _​unemployed​_ also lost their homes and built shacks out of
scraps of wood, cardboard, and sheet metal. The shanty towns became known as ​_Hoovervilles_​_ named
after the U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
As if things couldn’t get bad enough, miles of farmland was now dried up by a long _​drought​__ due to
this period without rainfall.
Wind picked up, moving big, thick clouds of dust from the farmland. This lasted nearly 10 years and is
known as _​the Dust Bowl​. It piled dust onto fields and crops were ruined. At times, the skies were
darkened for days. Many people moved to California.
In 1932, _​Franklin D. Roosevelt​_ was elected president of the U.S. and believed the government should
help the many Americans who lost their jobs. He created programs that gave people jobs which eventually
improved the economy. His efforts were called the ​New Deal.
At this time, it was ordered that all citizens be given an equal opportunity to get a job and no one would
be turned away based on _​race​_ or_​religion​__.
Thousands of African Americans helped build and repair hospitals, homes, and schools. Some were
teachers and doctors. _​Discrimination​_ still made things difficult because African Americans were often
still paid less for their work.
With millions of jobs created, ​roads, state parks, bridges and airport​s were built, improving local
communities.