Fernando Gomez: The Great Depression

1. Describe the Dust Bowl; what caused it?

The Dust Bowl is a sand storm and it was caused because people took the grass off farming crops.

2. Describe how TGD affected: (a) children, (b) families, (c) women, (d) men, and (e) people of color.

(a) Children didn't go to school but, went to work in sweatshops. (b) Families stayed at home and by that families broke apart. (c) Women now had to work but, they got paid less and married women couldn't work. (d) Men would look for jobs on the streets. (e) People of Color had been racially violence by unemployed white folks.

3. Who were "hoboes," and how did they travel?

They are transients, people who wandered the country by hitching rides on railroads.

4. What was enduring effect on people because of TGD?

People would be saving things like for example they would majorly save food.