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Objective. TSW identify and describe the defining characteristics of Texas in the Great Depression and World War II by completing a frayer model of key terms and people. . Warm-Up.

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  1. Objective TSW identify and describe the defining characteristics of Texas in the Great Depression and World War II by completing a frayer model of key terms and people.

  2. Warm-Up When you read the titles Great Depression, Dust Bowl, and World War II, what do you think of? What do you think they are about? Write 3-4 sentences. Great Depression Dust Bowl World War II

  3. Texas in the Great Depression and WWII

  4. Intro Video: Great Depression & Dust Bowl Great Depression • http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view?assetGuid=1DF29937-56B6-4EAA-A2FE-748B83FA608B&showBreadcrumbs=true Dust Bowl • http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view?assetGuid=BB8594C5-87EA-445D-A672-C311AAAA44BA&showBreadcrumbs=true • WWII • Women in WWII • http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view?assetGuid=BB8594C5-87EA-445D-A672-C311AAAA44BA&showBreadcrumbs=true

  5. Stock • A share of ownership in a company

  6. Unemployment • occurs when a person who is actively searching for employment is unable to find work

  7. Dust Bowl • an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, esp. as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.

  8. Ration • a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.

  9. Foreclosure • the process of taking possession of a mortgaged property as a result of the mortgagor's failure to keep up mortgage payments.

  10. Hoovervilles • a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.

  11. New Deal • A group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s; the New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression.

  12. Depression • (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.

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