Boom
Bust
Recovery
Business Cycle
Vocabulary
100
What cultural movement emerged in the 1920s and is characterized by this photo?
What was the flapper?
100
What major event occured on October 24th, 1929?
What was the Stock Market Crash?
100
This series of domestic programs enacted during the 1930s aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
100
What are the phases of the business cycle?
What are expansion, peak, recession, depression, trough, recovery?
100
People who buy stocks on credit are called
Who are speculators?
200
What historical event triggered the cultural movement characterized by this image:
What was the 19th Amendment?
200
What event does this map characterize?
What was the Dust Bowl?
200
Who was the President of the United States during the implementation of the New Deal policies?
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
During which phase of the business cycle is unemployment low?
What is expansion?
200
This woman is an example of what group of workers
Who were migrants?
300
What group of people did not see economic success during the 1920s?
Who were farmers?
300
Overproduction of goods leads to what?
What is lower prices and unemployment?
300
Which New Deal federal agency was responsible for employing millions of Americans to build thousands of bridges, public buildings and parks?
What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
300
America was in this phase of the business cycle towards the end of the 1920s
What was peak?
300
This happens when depositors panic
What is a bank run?
400
Between 1916 and 1930, nearly 1.5 million African Americans moved out of the Jim Crow south, this movement was know as what?
What was the Great Migration?
400
According to this passage, what caused the Great Depression?
What was speculation?
400
Some critics felt the New Deal increase federal spending and...
What was expand the power of the federal government?
400
This phase typically follows a peak
What is a recession?
400
The "alphabet soup" refers to
What is the New Deal?
500
What was the name given to the generation of young adults during the 1920s?
What was the Lost Generation?
500
Many Americans blamed this person for the Great Depression due to his "rugged individualism" and laissez-faire policies.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
500
Which group of people referred to the New Deal as a "raw Deal" due to the exclusion of some industries in the south?
Who were African Americans?
500
The New Deal moved the business cycle into this phase
What was recovery?
500
This policy established an old-age pension system in addition to unemployment insurance, disability benefits and welfare assistance
What is the Social Security Act?