Invented by Henry Ford to make the production of cars easier and faster.
What is the assembly line?
100
Money that one person owes to another
What is debt?
100
The drought ruined these for farmers?
What is crops?
100
President to pledge the New Deal
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
Famous Major League Baseball Player- Homerun King for years; Played for Boston Red Sox, then New York Yankees
Who is Babe Ruth?
200
This made household chores easier
What are electric appliances?
200
Many people were suffering this because of being jobless. *Vocabulary*
What is unemployment?
200
Area of the United States that the Dust Bowl took place
What is the Great Plains?
200
Believed government should not play a big role in the economy
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
World-famous pilot who made the first ever non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. His plane was called The Spirit of St. Louis
Who is Charles Lindburgh?
300
Time period known when there is new interest in art, literature, music, and learning.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
The date the stock market crashed
When is October 1929?
300
The cause of the Dust Bowl
What is a severe drought?
300
Roosevelt's Alphabet Administration ...Works Progress Administration also called
What is the W.P.A.?
400
Famous United States President through The Great Depression of the 1930’s and into a good portion of WWII in the 1940’s. Was left crippled from Polio, but public hardly knew. Famous for his “Alphabet Administration.”
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt or "F.D.R."?
400
In the first radio broadcast, people listened this person and the announcement of the election
Who is Warren Harding?
400
During this time people were left homeless. People built these out of scrap material to live in.
What is a shanty or shanties?
400
Time period of the Dust Bowl
What is between 1933 and 1937 (1930s)
400
Roosevelt's Alphabet Administration...Tennessee Valley Authority also called
What is the T.V.A.?
500
Female writer from Georgia, author of Gone with the Wind, an historical-fiction book set during the Civil War from which the record-breaking movie by same title was based.
Who is Margaret Mitchell?
500
The amendment that ended or repealed Prohibition
What is the Twenty-First Amendment?
500
The number of people who were unemployed by 1932 (percent)
What is 25%?
500
Two states that we have previously discussed that are inclued in the Great Plains