Vocabulary
hobo
People were using what to buy things?
credit
What states were hit the hardest during the Dust Bowl?
Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado
Hoover
What agency reorganized the banks and closed the ones that were insolvent?
Emergency Banking Act
When the economy slows down?
Depression
What genre was created in the 1920's?
Houses that were made out of whatever people could find? They were usually built in parks.
Hoovervilles
What President created the New Deal?
Roosevelt
What agency guaranteed pensions to millions of older Americans?
Social Security Act
When someone barrows more money then they can pay back?
debt
Give me two leisure activities that people did in the 1920's?
Went dancing, going to movies, baseball games, and vacationing
What caused the United States to get out of Depression?
Start of WWII
Who was the famous bootlegger from Chicago?
Al Capone
Tennessee Valley Authority
Flappers
What was one of the first stores retail stores to open in the United States?
Sears or Piggly Wiggly
What was the date when the stock market crashed?
October 29, 1929
Who was the famous baseball player in the 1920's?
Bath Ruth
What did the Civilian Conservation Corps do?
Gave boys jobs, shelter, and money
When it was illegal to buy, make, or sell liquor?
prohibition
Name a famous dance that was created in the 1920's?
Charleston or Shimmy
Painting buildings, building dams, building bridges, paving roads, writing music
Who was the first pilot to fly around the world?
Charles Lindbergh
Soup kitchens