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Section II (National Study): USA 1919-1941
Quick questions on The Dust Bowl and Depression society: HSC Modern History USA
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What is urban unemployment?Show answer
The Depression's urban impact was severe. Unemployment rose from around 3 per cent in 1929 to around 25 per cent in 1933, around 13 million workers. Underemployment (short hours, low pay) added millions more. Industrial production fell around 46 per cent.
What is the Bonus Army?Show answer
The Adjusted Compensation Act (1924) had granted First World War veterans a bonus payable in 1945. As the Depression deepened, veterans pressed for early payment.
What is the Dust Bowl?Show answer
The Dust Bowl was the convergence of a severe drought (1931 to 1939) and decades of over-ploughing of the Great Plains. The First World War wheat boom had drawn farmers onto marginal land in the southern Plains; tractors and the disc plough broke the native grasses that had held the soil.
What is q1?Show answer
Source A is Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother (1936). Using Source A and your own knowledge, explain the impact of the Depression on rural America. [5 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Evaluate the extent to which the Depression transformed American society. [25 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare the views of Donald Worster and John Steinbeck on the Dust Bowl. [10 marks]
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