The Roaring 20s
This man developed the Model T. His assembly line methods help make automobiles affordable for the middle class.
Who is Henry Ford?
This was plowed up and replaced by wheat, leaving the soil unanchored and vulnerable to high winds.
What is prairie grassland?
Calvin Coolidge took this approach to economics. It is a more hands-off approach, where the government allows the forces of supply and demand control the market.
What is Laissez Faire Economics?
Because demand dropped drastically after WWI, farmers found that they had _____________ their crops.
What is overproduced?
Which President was nicknamed "Silent Cal"
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Girls who wore straight cut dresses, had short hair, and danced the Charleston were called this
What are flappers?
This is what the dust storms that ravaged the Great Plains were called.
What are black storms?
FDR explained his New Deal strategies to the American people via the radio in his ___________ chats.
What are fireside chats?
This is what some shanty-towns were nicknamed, illustrating general discontent with the current president.
What are Hoovervilles?
This illness, occurring simultaneously as WWI, caused more deaths than WWI combat did. Masks were mandated in the city of San Francisco because of this disease.
What is the Spanish influenza/flu?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
This Act encouraged many people who had no experience with farming to begin farming
What is the Homestead Act?
This reform was based on Townsend's Old Age Revolving Pension Plan
What is Social Security?
This day went down in infamy when crowds of people flooded the banks to claim their money the banks no longer had
What is Black Tuesday?
This is what we call the mass movement of the African American populations from the South to the North in the 1920s
What is the Great Migration?
This terrorist group resurged in the 20s, not just in the South, but in the North as well
What is the KKK?
This is the name / number of the route migrant workers took who left the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl.
What is route 66?
FDR attempted to pack this branch of the federal government, because they kept overruling measures he thought to be important.
What is the Supreme Court?
This percentage of the population was unemployed during the Great Depression.
What is 25%?
Thousands of immigrants were apprehended after some letter bombs had been discovered. The hysteria was caused by fear of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This man was a famous poet from the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote the poem "Justice is a Blind Goddess"
Who is Langston Hughes?
This is what people who moved from Oklahoma to California were nicknamed
What are Okies?
This is what FDR's relief program was called [named after a certain number of days.]
What are the 100 Days?
This is when you cannot afford the stock you wish to purchase, so you buy it on the __________
what is the margin?
This was an attempt of Hoover's to encourage American citizens to buy American goods, but it only worsened the economic situation by limiting American trade overseas.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?