Great Depression-Part 1
What was the name of the drought that caused many farmers in the great plains to have terrible harvests in the 1930's?
What is the dust bowl
The amendment to the Constitution that granted women suffrage or the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This was/is a group that began as anti-black in 1865, but expanded to hate Catholics, Jews, and immigrants during the 1920s.
What is the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)
This event made the New Deal necessary.
What is The Great Depression?
Billions of dollars were lost from the stock market on ___________ and this began the downward spiral into the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday
The explosion of intellectual, social, and artistic achievements by African Americans in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
How many parts can the New Deal be divided into?
What is 2
The New Deal was created by
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
During the 1920s the economy was ______, but during the Great Depression the economy was _______.
What is booming and declining
What are Flappers
This amendment to the Constitution prohibited the buying and selling of alcohol in the U.S
What is the 18th Amendment
This organized public or private social services for assistance of disadvantaged groups.
Social Welfare
During the Great Depression, Shanytowns sprung up and were called...
Hoovervilles
Which event brought the United States OUT of the Great Depression?
What is World War II
The Butler Act, Scopes Monkey Trial, and Fundamentalism are examples of the Rise of _____ in the 1920s.
What is Conservatism?
This provided insurance to bank customers
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
This was created to provide money to people over the age of 65, dependent mothers and children, and the handicapped.
What is Social Security
What were Soup Kitchens?
A common place for unemployed citizens to get a meal during the Great Depression.
What were bank runs?
When people rushed to withdraw their savings from banks (causing widespread bank failures between 1929-1933)
The Great Migration is...
What is a movement of African Americans out of the South to northern and western cities in the first part of the 1900s.
The agency that hired young, unemployed people to do restoration projects throughout the country like building roads and developing parks.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
What was the intended purpose of the New Deal
To provide economic relief, recovery, and reform to the U.S during the Great Depression.