1920s Industry and Economy
This was the first mass produced car.
What is the Ford Model T?
This type of music blew up during the 1920s.
What is Jazz?
This agency insured bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
This term refers to quickly and poorly constructed towns for homeless people.
What is Hooverville?
This skyrocketed during the Great Depression.
What is unemployment?
This industry experienced a lot of growth during the 1920s.
What is the automobile industry?
This was a popular leisure activity during the 1920s.
What is sports/radio/movies/music and dance?
This new deal agency provided unemployment income and income for the elderly.
What is the Social Security Act?
President Hoover did not want to do this, because he felt it would hurt businesses.
What is raise taxes?
This event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This increased consumer spending and contributed to debt in the 1920s.
This contributed to the rise of speakeasies and bootlegging.
What is the 18th Amendment/Prohibition?
This was the purpose of the SEC.
What is regulating the stock market and preventing fraud?
This was a major criticism of Hoover's response to the Great Depression.
What is refusal to intervene in the economy?
The Dust Bowl heavily affected this group of people.
Who are Farmers?
This manufacturing innovation made mass production easy.
What is the assembly line?
This movement, named after a previous historical period, had famous artists such as Langston Hughes and Louis Armstrong.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This Acronym refers to the goals of the New Deal, and this is what the acronym stands for.
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This law provided direct monetary relief during the Great Depression under Hoover.
What is the ERCA? (Emergency Relief and Construction Act)
The Great Depression hurt this group of people more than others.
Who are African Americans?
Mass production had this effect on consumer goods.
This act was passed as a result of nativism.
What is the Immigration act of 1924?
FDR used these in order to gain the trust of the American People and inform them of his policies.
What are Fireside chats?
President Hoover thought this would keep the American Economy moving during the Great Depresison.
What is Rugged Individualism?
This group marched on Washington in order to get the government to give them their checks.