Great Depression
The Great Depression began after the market crashed on this day
What is Black Friday?
The region effect by the heavy dust storms
Panhandle region, nothern Texas, south eastern Colorado, south west Kansas, and Oklahoma
Believed that Americans should rely on themselves and each other to survive through the Great Depression
Who was Herbert Hoover
An internationally famous flapper from the 1920s
Who was Josephine Baker?
A financial strategy where stocks are purchased not with your own money, but with a loan.
What is Buying Stocks on Margin?
This event will lead to an over-production of farming.
What was WW1?
Argued that American exceptionalism could be misguided and lead to later mistakes
Who was Sinclair Lewis
A court case over the legality of teaching evolution in public schools
What was the Scopes monkey trial?
The decade the Dow Jones was founded.
What is the 1880s?
This law gave anyone the chance to receive land for free as long as they agreed to start their own farm.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
The King Fish
Who was Huey Long?
The faction that wins the Russian Civil War
Who were the Bolsheviks?
Caused by panic, crowds of people rush to a bank to withdraw money usually leading to bank failure
What is a bank run?
This number of people will be forced to migrate from the Dust Bowl.
What is 3 million refugees?
The executive leadership organization for democratic party of New York.
What was Tammany Hall?
The person responsible for the first city to be powered by electricity in America.
Who was Thomas Edison?
A rapid decrease in the price of goods and the value of a currency.
What is deflation?
This disease spread rapidly due to the dust bowl.
What was pneumonia?
Passes TERA and creates the Seabury Committee
Who was FDR?
These two men were accused of murder for being anarchists
Who were Sacco and Venzetti?