Important Events
A style of dance music popular in the 1920s
What is Jazz?
The condition of being without a job
What is unemployment?
A system of buying goods or services by charging the amount with payment due at a later time
What is credit?
What is Amanda?
Sunday, April 14, 1936- the day a huge dust storm engulfed much of the Midwest
What is Black Sunday?
Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
What is a flapper?
Forms of communication, such as newspapers and radio, that reach millions of people
What is mass media?
A Decrease in the general price level of goods and services.
What is deflation?
This is Mrs. N's favorite pokemon
What is Snorlax?
A time when President Roosevelt shut down the banks from March 6 to March 13 in 1933 in order to stabilize the banking system
What is a Bank Holiday?
Someone who makes or sells illegal liquor.
What is a bootlegger?
A law that prevented the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages.
What is prohibition?
A place where stocks and bonds are traded and sold
What is a stock market?
The number of kids Mrs. N has
What is the number 3?
October 24, 1929- the day the stock market crashed, marking the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
What is nativism?
A Shantytown where homeless people built shacks out of things like scrap wood, cardboard, and tar paper
What is Hooverville?
A long-term downturn in economic activity
What is depression?
What is napping?
What is playing video games?
What is reading?
Severe drought in the Midwest during the 1930s- turned the soil into dust, causing crops to die and dust storms to occur
What is the Dust Bowl?
A series of 30 radio addresses given by President Roosevelt
The interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth
What is fundamentalism?
A time of decline in economic activity
What is a recession?
The state Mrs. N is from.
What is Texas?