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CH. 9/10 KS Vocab Test

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Speculation
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What is a shelterbelt?
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What did Kansas farmers begin to do with wheat during WWI?
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Name the causes of the Dust Bowl?
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What problems pushed many Kansas farmers into debt?
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Describe how Kansans were impacted by the Dust Bowl:
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Explain the benefits of Irrigation:
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What 2 things caused the US to enter WWI?
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What was Camp Funston started for?
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What is crop rotation?
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Describe how the flu epidemic was thought to have started:
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Explain the purpose of using the stubble mulch technique
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Describe what life was like during the 1920s.
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What were the main causes of WWI?
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What is contour farming?
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Explain the likelihood of another Dust Bowl occurring:
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What were some of the problems that Kansans had to deal with because of the Great Depression?
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What was Black Tuesday?
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It is very unlikely due to the farming practices and methods employed currently.
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Soldiers were burning waste outside Fort Riley and a dust storm blew the ashes into the air. A few days later, several soldiers fell ill, leading some to believe this was how the epidemic began.
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Banks failed, Aircraft companies in KS went bankrupt, and Crop prices dropped and it stopped raining, the beginning of a drought.
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Changing what is planted in a field each year, helping to maintain the health of the soil and control weeds, diseases
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Prosperity, leisure time, new technology and the start of the use of credit (purchasing things without having the cash to do so).
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The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Note.
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A conclusion, opinion, or theory reached by supposition.
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Severe droughts, high winds and soil-eroding farming practices.
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A barrier of trees and shrubs that protects against the wind and reduces erosion.
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No one could afford to spend much money – even on crops, so farmers couldn’t pay their debts.
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By bringing water to the crops, farmers can improve production during average years and survive times of drought.
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Planting and plowing crops around hills, helps to hold moisture in the soil.
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Cattle died in dust storms, farms were destroyed, people inhaling the dust had breathing trouble, etc.
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Sent it to European nations who needed food.
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By leaving some straw and stalks on the surface after the field is tilled, the soil is protected from being blown away by wind.
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October 29, 1929 - the Stock Market crashed.
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To train new volunteer soldiers during WWI.
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Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
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How many Americans died from the flu?
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What is a U-boat?
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How many Kansans volunteered to fight in WWI?
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What is soil erosion caused by?
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Financially ruined.
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One that is at a disadvantage.
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An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely.
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The state or policy of being neutral. (Refusing to choose a side)
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Creating ditches that go with the contour of the land, helps reduce unnecessary runoff.
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The capital or fund that a corporation raises through the sale of shares. (Purchasing a small portion of "ownership" in a company)

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