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100
This formula, Assets-Liabilities is determined to find....?
What is equity
100
This wall street trader would pool together with other wealthy stock traders and buy thousands of shares of a particular stock.
Who is Michael Meehan
100
A famous jazz singer who wrote "strange fruit"
Who is Billie Holiday
100
This economic measurement is used to determine the overall health of an economy.
What is GDP
100
Radio City Company was based in this US city
What is Pittsburgh
200
During the 1920s, alcohol was not allowed to be purchased. What is this called.
What is prohibition
200
This individual was a founder of one of the leading financial institutions in the US in 1871. He was also the son of a banker.
Who is J.P Morgan
200
This is a famous dance of the 1920s
What is the Charleston
200
President Roosevelt initiated a program to hire 200,000 young men and women aged 16-24 to work in the woods planting trees and making trails.
What is the civilian conservation corps.
200
This US city nicknamed Mo-town is where Henry Ford established his motor company.
What is Detroit
300
This astrologer influenced many people to buy large amounts of stock
Who is Evangelina Adams
300
Palmer Hayden
A famous artist of the Harlem Renaissance.
300
Blue Skies.
Irving Berlin wrote this song to capture the mood of the 1920s.
300
Unemployment.
The New Deal in the 1930s was the first time when people who lost their jobs would receive this....
300
This US city nicknamed the big apple is where the Harlem Reinascance began.
What is new York
400
In the 1920s many people borrowed money from the banks to buy stock. This is known as.....
What is buying on margin.
400
The Negro Speaks of rivers is a poem written by this Harlem Renaissance poet.
Who is Langston Hughes
400
Bing Cosby wrote and performed this song to illustrate the economic devastation of the Great Depression.
What is "Brother Can you Spare a Dime"
400
This is one of Roosevelt's programs in the New Deal in which government would build a large number of different projects such as roads, bridges, schools, and athletic fields.
What is the "works progress" program.
400
This US city nicknamed the windy city became the center of jazz music.
What is Chicago
500
William Durant
This individual was the founder of General Motors in New Jersey and was one of Ford's major competitors.
500
This British economist believed that in order to stimulate GNP, government spending should increase even putting the country into debt.
Who is John Maynard Keynes
500
Jazz musicians had a very free style of performing music. In many cases, they did not have to even be able to read music but would make up melodies as they played. This is known as....
What is improvisation.
500
This part of the new deal included helping to increase the price of bread from 5 cents per loaf to 6 cents per loaf.
What is the farm program
500
Billie Holiday was born in this US city nicknamed "The City of Brotherly Love." This is a direct translation from Greek.
What is Philadelphia
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