general terms
vocabulary
Dates
Facts
People
100
trading venue for stocks and shares
What is the stock market?
100
poverty
What does it mean when you don't have much?
100
1929
What did the Great Depression begin?
100
unpaid wages and poor working conditions
What did the unions protest?
100
Roosevelt
What was president during the beginning of this time period?
200
recession
What is it called when the economy is declining?
200
inflation
What is called when the prices increase?
200
around 1940
What did the Great Depression end?
200
sit-down strike
What is it called when workers come to work and do nothing?
200
Hooverville
What is a shantytown that was named after a President?
300
economy
What is the wealth and resources of a country?
300
one in four
What is the number of Americans that were out of work in 1932?
300
The Grapes of Wrath
What novel looked at the lives of poor American farmers ?
300
John Steinbeck
What wrote the famous novel about the Depression and it later won the Academy Award in 1940?
400
inequality
What is called when things are not equal?
400
The Great Depression
What is the time period in history when people lost a lot of money?
400
1932
What is the date when many Veterans went to Washington to demand money?
400
bread lines
What was it called when the government handed out food to the needy?
400
Eleanor Roosevelt
What first lady was a hope to many Americans during this time period?
500
Dust Bowl
What was the huge area of farmland that dried up called?
500
hoboes
What were unemployed men who lived on trains called?
500
1929
What was the stock market crash?
500
comedies and musicals
What movies had great sucess during this time period?
500
veterans
What kind of people were in the bonus army?
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