The Roaring Twenties
An amendment to the United States Constitution that prohibits the production, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages in the United States is known as the
What is the 18th amendment
A market in which prices show an increasing trend for a prolonged period and rise above their historical average is known as
What is the Bull Market
A term used to describe the dust storms of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression is
What are Black Blizzards
Children wrote letters to who during this time asking for help
Who are FDR and his wife
An amendment to the United States Constitution that repeals the 18th amendment to the Constitution, ending Prohibition is known as the
What is the 21st amendment
Describe overproduction
What is when goods are being produced at a faster rate than they are being consumed
True or False
The Dust Storms only impacted the states where they occurred.
What is False
Franklin D Roosevelt won the presidential election because
What is
he promised to be hands on to get the country out of the Great Depression
The effect that Prohibition had on crime during the 1920s was
What is crime increased during the 1920s due to Prohibition
Companies issue stock to raise money. Give three examples of what companies would do with that money
What is:
Research better ways to make things
create new products
improve the products they had
hire more employees
enlarge or modernize their buildings
Give 2 causes of the Dust Bowl
What are:
farmers used practices that deprived the soil of its nutrients and increased the possibility of erosion
severe drought
heavy plowing eliminated the natural grasses that held the soil and maintained moisture
In terms of the getting out of the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover felt
What is
The country needed to fix itself with little to no interference from the government
Give me three examples of how we described Flappers
What is:
rode bikes
smoked
drank
danced
bob hair cut
layers of jewlery
a lot of makeup
dresses below the knee
During what month did the stock market crash
What is October
How did the Dust Bowl affect Families
Any of these answer will do:
what is
they didn't have money, food or clothes
they had to leave their homes and find work
The reason FDR did the fireside chats were
What is
to provide important information about the status of the country and let the citizens know what was being implemented to help fix the country
Give an example of a person from the Harlem Renaissance and what they did
a few possible answers:
Billie Holiday - singer
Duke Ellington - singer
Louis Armstrong - singer
C.J. Walker - entrepreneur
Augusta Savage - sculptor
The earliest example of a brokerage can be traced back to the (insert year here) in France.
What is the 1100s
A relief program that was created to help the Dust Bowl was the
What is the CCC or the Civilian Conservation Corps
Give an example of a program instituted during this time and who it helped
Possible Answers:
Works Progress Administration - Mostly men
Tennessee Valley Authority - unemployed and farmers
Social Security Act - elderly and the unemployed
Civilian Conservation Corps - young, American men, ages 18-25 typically
Federal Deposit Corporation - American citizens who used banks and the banks
National Industrial Recovery Act - workers