The Roaring 20s
Signs of Trouble
The 1929 Crash
The Great Depression
Global & Human Impact
100

This genre of music and "new styles" defined the happy feeling of the 1920s.


Jazz

100

This group of people had "big problems" even before the 1930s started.


Farmers 

100

This is the specific year the stock market crashed.


1929

100

This is the popular name for the "Bad Times of the 1930s."


The Great Depression 

100

This country sold two-thirds less "stuff" to Europe after trade rules changed.


Canada

200

The number of cars in use grew from 8 million to this many by the end of the '20s.


23 Million 

200

In the late '20s, the richest 1% of people held this percentage of the money.


40%

200

These types of loans acted as a "booster" that turned a correction into a catastrophe.


Margin Loans 

200

To help people, the government started these to "build things."


New Programs 

200

This specific industry in Canada had it "really bad" compared to others.


Farmers 

300

These two new household inventions changed how people lived in the 1920s.


Fridges & Radios 

300

This term describes the problems that weren't easy to see under the "happy surface."


The Quiet Depression 

300

The crash was caused by widespread buying on this, also known as borrowing money.


Credit 

300

World trade fell apart because of a specific "rule" made in this year.


1930

300

Besides farmers, these two groups of people in Canada were hurt the most.


Immigrants and Native Canadians

400

This was the annual percentage rate at which factories increased their production.


3.5%

400

People in this specific "dying" energy industry had a hard time in the late '20s.


Coal Mining 

400

Investors did this when they lost confidence in the market, causing massive losses.


Panic Selling 

400

The "Volume of Brokers' Margin Loans" reached this dollar amount in 1928.


6 Billion

400

This happened to banks after the crash because they got "scared."


They all closed

500

This group helped businesses during the '20s and gave tax cuts to the rich.


The Government 

500

Many people bought cars by doing this every month instead of paying all at once.


Paying a little each month (Installment buying)


500

The "Milwaukee Leader" reported that this many dollars were lost in the crash.


Billions 

500

This "gambling" behavior in the stock market was a main reason things went wrong.


Treating the market like a gamble 

500

This is how people felt (moving from happy) once they lost trust in the economy.


Worried and Desperate 

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