People
Failed president at the start of the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Women who wore dresses above the knee and smoked and danced
Flappers
Homeless camps that people blamed on their useless president were called....
Hoovervilles
Name one of the new deal construction projects...
building roads, bridges, dams, schools, public buildings
What is FDR's real name?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President elected four times because of his success in dealing with the great depression
FDR
What caused the biggest change in the lives of women enabling them to have more leisure time?
Electricity
Name something that showed the dark side of the 1920s
KKK, racism toward immigrants, poverty for some, Scopes trial (teacher), red scare
Name something that was part of the reform aspect of the new deal.
FDIC insured banks, banks couldn't trade in stocks and bonds
How many times was he elected?
Four
Pilot who flew solo around the world and then his baby was kidnapped. One of the first American celebrities.
Charles Lindbergh
How did factories improve Americans' standard of living?
People could afford to buy these mass produced items because they were less expensive.
the set of programs adopted under Roosevelt administration to combat the Great Depression
New Deal
Name something that was part of the economic recovery aspect of the new deal
farm unions, building dams, farming and irrigation techniques, paying farmers to grow less food to raise prices, plant trees to fight the dust bowl
How many terms did he serve and why?
Three, because he died.
One term president with no solutions to the great depression who ended up having the military fire at protesting American citizens.
Herbert Hoover
Many African Americans settled here and it became a creative zome for them
Harlem (Renaissance)
Fear of communists where Americans were accused and arrested
Red Scare
Explain the relief aspect of the new deal, the first things that needed to be done.
Provide food and funds to those in need. Create jobs.
What was his disability and what caused it?
Polio, he was unable to walk.
This African American poet and writer was part of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote poems such as Mother to Son and I too Sing America
Langston Hughes
Second to electricity, this invention changed the lives of Americans more than any other invention up to that point.
Cars
Beginning during WW1, the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural south to cities in the north to take industry jobs
The great migration
What were the three R's of FDR's new deal plan?
relief
recovery
reform
What was the famous quote from FDR's inauguration?
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.