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Test #2 **__ Cameron Beckert __**
 * __Dust bowl __**: The dust bowl was a weather problem that the United States had to deal with. The dust and the wind would form a massive tornado like dust storm. When this dust storm happened it would be very hard to see and very hard to do the work that the farmers and other people would have to do on a daily basis. And the storms would last as long as there were wind so some storms would be pretty long and hard to deal with. Also the dust that would be flying around and would kill all the crops and wheat fields and stuff. So when the storm was over it was hard for the people to get right back to work because they would have to clean up after all of that dust storm. The dust storms would also wipe out houses if the wind was strong enough and that would be very hard to regroup after something like that.


 * __Bonus Army __**: In 1932 the government promised all the WW1 veterans a bonus for fighting in the war, but they couldn't give them the money right then so they said that they will give them the money in 20 years, so the government could have the money to pay them. The bonus was $1.25 for every day you served over sea’s and $1.00 for every day you served in the United States. The problem of this bonus was that the veterans wouldn’t get their money until 1945, but most of the veterans wanted their money right then and there because the U.S just started going into the depression and the solders couldn’t pay for all the expenses that they had. So some started to camp out in Washington D.C and demanding their money now! About 10000 people were in the camps protesting and waiting for their money. On June 12 the senate and congress were starting to think about giving the veterans their money, so they tried to pass a bill, but it was denied by a vote of 62 to 18. The veterans were very sad and heart broken and they started a “Death March” where they didn’t say any thing and that lasted until July 17. About a month later Attorney General Mitchell orderd the evacuation of the veterans, he brought in tanks the whole thing to get them out. The army attacked the veterans, even though Truman said for them to stop when nobody got hurt but they didn’t listen and instead they burn down the whole camp. Two babies were killed and there was so many injured that the hospital couldn’t hold them all. [[image:220px-Hobos2.jpg width="166" height="231" align="right"]]
 * __Hobos __**: A hobo is a person who doesn’t have a home to go to or doesn’t have any money to spend they mostly just spend their time walking around and trying to get scrapes of food. But they weren’t bums, because bums wouldn’t work at all, hobos were just people who moved around while they were working. Or they would quit a job and move to another place and try to find some more work.
 * __Al Capone __**: Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York . And his troubles with the law started at a early age, he was in two gangs as a kid, and got into some trouble. But he also did some normal stuff as a kid, he worked as a clerk in a candy store, a pinboy in a bowling alley, and a cutter in a book bindery. He also worked in the Harvord inn, and while working there he insulted a patron [[image:capnemug.jpg align="left"]]and as a result her brother came up and attack him and that’s when he got all the scars that made him known as Scarface. In 1918 Capone met a girl named Mary Mea Coughlin, and on December 4th 1918 she had a son and in the some year they got married. Al Capones first charge was a disorderly conduct charge when he was working for Yale. He also murdered 2 men but because nobody could say that he did do that he was never charged for the murders. Capone then moved to Chicago to stay away form some heat that was building up where he lived. Capone started working for John Torrio and Capone worked hard for him and eventually made it up to Torrios number 2 man. When Torrio was shot by a rival gang member Capone became the big made of the business, and all of the men respected and listened to Capone. Capone was making a good sum of money from this business he was doing and he was doing pretty well for himself. Then Capone moved to Florida because the mayor of Chicago hired a new police chef to run him out of town. Even though Capone ordered a lot of deaths and even killed a lot of people with his own hands he was never caught for the murders of anyone. The way that he was caught was from income tax invasion, and he was sent to Alcatraz prison in San Francisco. And when he was relished he just spent his time in his house in Palm Springs and passed the time away. He died on January 21,1947 from a stroke that may have been caused by syphilis.


 * __Black Tuesday__**: On October 29th, 1929, the stock market crashed and lost 13% of it’s value. Some of the people say that this is the starting point and the reason of the Great Depression. The stock holders didn’t like this crash because they couldn’t make very much money because the people were taking out their stocks and nobody was making new stocks for them to make money so people started to lose money and this lead to the Depression. The U.S wasn’t ready for this big crash to happen they thought that every thing was nice and good until it crashed and, it dawned on them that they were losing money and not making any. So if we were better prepared for the crash we probably wouldn’t had had the Great Depression.


 * __New Deal__**: People were started to lose their jobs and not making any money because they weren’t working. Rossoveltte wanted people to have jobs, so he started to invent jobs that didn't really matter so they could make some money and not lose their house and so they could get some food for their families. Also the CCC started and it helped young men to go and get jobs and make some money, and that helped them to stay out of trouble and off the streets. Rossoveltte really helped out the country when he did this, he was a very smart man and tried his hardest to make this place the best to live in. 
 * __Atomic Bomb__**: The Atomic Bomb was a bomb that we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We did this because the apanese bombed Pearl Harper and we went into WW11 because of this and the Japanese were very stubborn and proud people and wouldn’t surrender so we decided to drop 2 atomic bombs on them. The first atomic bomb that we dropped was called “Little Boy” and we dropped it on Hiroshima on Monday, August 6th 1945, and it was devastating to the Japanese. Then that was followed by the 2nd bomb that was called “Fat Man” and that bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th. Then after that the Japanese surrendered.
 * __Island Hopping__**: This means that people would travel by sea but not go completely over the ocean in one trip they would go from island to island and stop at the island so it wasn’t as far. It was just meant for people who didn’t like to ride a boat non-stop for a long time and with no breaks. This did help more with people traveling because I wouldn’t want to travel non-stop on a boat. The US did this Island Hopping because they wanted to control all the surounding islands so that when Japan came in range we could bomb them with our bombers.


 * __Big Band Music:__** This is a type of music that is associated with Jazz and this type of music became popular during the Swing Era which was during the 1930's. Big bands are still going on today, a big band is typically cosited of 12-25 musicians, and the insturments involved were trumpets, saxaphones and other jazzy instruments. Unlike small jazz bands who play their music spontaniuslly a big jazz band is very arranged and doesn't really take risks. But they still make reallly good music and were very popular in the 1930-1940's and still are. I love listening to jazz bands because they sound really good. [[image:radio11w.jpg align="right"]]


 * __Golden Age of Radio:__** The golden age of radio is when in 1930's when the radio came out. Everybody had one 2 out of 3 homes had a radio which would brodcast 4 national and 20 regianal stations and would go on 24 hours a day and people loved the radio. Although people didn't buy newspaper very much anymore more people would buy a radio so it kinda even out.