UNIT 11

 THE FOLLOWING ARE CHARACTERISTICS OF TEXAS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION.  NEW DEAL PROGRAMS  DUST BOWL DROUGHT  BOOM AND BUST IN THE COTTON INDUSTRY

 GREAT DEPRESSION  DUST BOWL  NEW DEAL  WORLD WAR II

 THE ECONOMIC EFFECT OF WORLD WAR II ON TEXAS.  WOMEN JOINED THE WORK FORCE  ECONOMY BEGAN TO GROW  ITEMS WERE RATIONED

 AIR FORCE: BROOKS CITY-BASE, DYESS, GOOD FELLOW, LACKLAND, LAUGHLIN, RANDOLPH AND SHEPPARD.  ARMY: FORT BLISS, FORT HOOD, FORT SAM HOUSTON AND RED RIVER DEPOT.  NAVY: JRB(FT. WORTH), NAS(CORPUS CHRISTI) AND NAS(KINGS VILLE)  MILITARY BASES IN W.W.II WERE BUILT IN TEXAS BECAUSE OF THE MODERATE CLIMATE AND LAND.

 NORTH TEXAS FARMERS MOVED WEST TO CALIFORNIA.  DUST STORMS AFFECTED A LARGE PART OF TEXAS.  MANY FARMERS LOST THEIR LANF TO BANKS.  STATES OUTSIDE THE DUST BOWL WERE AFFECTED.  PLANTED NEW TREES AND VEGETATION TO PREVENT EROSION.

 IMPROVED THE LIVES OF TEXANS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION BY EMPLOYING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO BUILD BRIDGES, ROADS AND SCHOOLS.

 THE COTTON PRODUCTION IN TEXAS DURING THE 1930’S AND 40’S DROPPED AND FEWER ACRES WERE PLANTED.  FEWER PEOPLE WORKED IN RURAL TEXAS DURING THE 1940’S.

 AUDIE MURPHY  JOHN NANCE GARNER  MIRIAM A. “MA” FERGUSON

 OVERPRODUCTION LED TO PRICE DECREASES IN TEXAS, WHICH LED TO ECONOMIC DOWNFALL IN THE 1930’S.