Vocab
The mass fear that the US would be taken over by communists
Red Scare
This is where people would go to get illegal drinks
Speakeasies
The name of the first radio station was
KDKA
A Bull Market is
When stock prices are expected to rise
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
Prejudice against foreign people is called
Nativism
The Teapot Dome scandal was
A scandal involving cabinet officials accepting bribes from oil companies
The percentage of people who lost their farms during the dust bowl
60%
The day the stock market crashed is called
Black Tuesday
Native American sports hero who won Olympic medals and played professional football
Jim Thorpe
Hoovervilles were what
Shantytowns
Income between 1920-1929 rose how much
35%
List two reasons children suffered long term effects during the Great Depression/Dust Bowl
Poor diet, lack of medical care
The unemployment rate during the Great Depression was
25%
Popular fundamentalist preacher in the 1920's
Billy Sunday
Was the first Talkie
The Jazz Singer
Didn't care, had no time, family discouraged it
Won the 1932 presidential election
FDR
These 2 factors led to the dust bowl
Drought and poor farming practices
Invented the first gossip column
Walter Winchell
Emergency Quota Act
Three appliances that made life easier in the 1920's were
Radios, fridges, toasters
These two ran for president in 1932
*DAILY DOUBLE*
FDR and Herbert Hoover
These were the 3 underlying causes of the stock market
Unstable economy, overspeculation, government policies
Were two film superstars during the 1920's
Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo