Prohibition
What does prohibition mean?
Alcohol is illegal
A consumer is someone who...
buys things
If you invest in a business and they do well what will happen to your money?
Grow/increase
Hot, dry, windy
Was the New Deal part of the 1920's or 1930's
1930's
Who was the famous gangster during prohibition?
Al Capone
Name something that consumers bought in the 1920's
cars/telephones/fridge/washing machine/vacuum
What happened on Black Tuesday?
Everyone tried to sell their stocks and lost money.
Name a state where the Dust Bowl happened
Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, Kansas
Who started the New Deal?
FDR
Did crime increase or decrease during prohibition?
increase
Who made the Model T car?
Henry Ford
What was the name of the president that wanted to do nothing to help the people hurt by the stock market.
Herbert Hoover
What did farmers have to do because of the Dust Bowl?
Migrate for new farming jobs
Name 2 things the New Deal did.
Create jobs, provide housing, social security, reform banks
What is moonshine?
Alcohol made illegally at home.
What did people do to buy new appliances when they didn't have the money?
Take out a loan
What happened to the GDP during the Great Depression?
It went down.
What does John Steinbeck say is happening to families in California even though the trees are full of fruit?
Dying/Starving
Who did the New Deal treat unfairly?
Why did prohibition end?
The government wanted more businesses/tax money during the Great Depression.
Many houses could have appliances likes ovens and washing machines because houses at the time started to get what?
Electricity
Why did banks close?
Everyone tried to take out their money and the banks ran out
What was one of the nicknames that migrant farmers got in California?
Okies or Arkies
The New Deal did not end The Great Depression. What event did?
WWII