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This place (neighborhood) became the political and cultural center for African-Americans during the 1920.
What is Harlem?
100
Once side effect of the Harlem Renaissance was an increase in the membership and strengthening of this organization.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
The New Deal was created by this President.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
During the Great Depression, many Americans lost their homes because they could not afford the rent or mortgage. Many of these moved and settled in small impoverished shantytowns along the cities called ___________________.
What are Hoovervilles?
100
Another name for October 29, 1929, when the Stock Market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
200
This is a theoretical piece of a company or corporation that can be bought and sold at an agreed price.
What is stock?
200
The time when a severe drought and huge dust storms formed across the Great Plains during the Great Depression is known as this. Farms were smothered in dust and crops could not be grown.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This refers to the numerous programs developed by FDR to create jobs, provide food, clothing, and housing and start economic recovery. It is better known as the ___________.
What is the New Deal?
200
Another name for bread lines, these were places were people could go be a free meal during the Great Depression. Lines for these were usually long and meals were usually very small.
What are soup kitchens?
200
This President is blamed for his inaction during the Great Depression. He said that things would "fix themselves" with time and did not take action until it was too late.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
One of the causes of the Harlem Renaissance, it was the mass migration of hundreds of thousands of African-Americans from the South to the North.
What is the Great Migration?
300
One of FDR's biggest criticisms came when he tried to expand the number of Supreme Court Justices from 9 to 14. This attempt to increase the number of SC justices is better known as trying to "_________________".
What is "Pack the Court"?
300
This system created by FDR is a system designed to help the elderly. It takes a little bit out of each paycheck as a worker, which the individual then gets back once he is retired. What is this system called?
What is Social Security?
300
Important contributions during the Harlem Renaissance occurred in African-American arts, music, and ___________________________
What is Literature?
300
Borrowing money to put in the stock market is called this. It caused a lot of people to go into debt after the Great Depression.
What is "buying on margin"?
400
Young men who "rode the rails" in search of jobs and better opportunity during the Great Depression were better known as these.
What are hobos?
400
In the movie The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is obsessed and in love with ______________________, who ends up with her cheating husband after Gatsby's death.
Who is Daisy or Daisy Buchanan?
400
The largest of the New Deal agencies, it gave approximately 8 million Americans jobs improving schools, parks, roads, and hospitals.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
400
Many Americans during the 1920's were buying stock without researching the companies or considering the risks involved. They thought the stock market would only continue to grow and never crash. What was this type of risky behavior called?
What is speculating or buying on speculation?
400
President Hoover's became even more unpopular when he refused to give this group of people their veterans checks. He went as far as using the police force to kick them out of Washington, D.C. while they were protesting.
What is the Bonus Army?
500
FDR decided that the banks should be the first to be saved during the Great Depression. To help banks, FDR created this agency, which insured the deposits of account holders for up to $5,000. You must give the FULL NAME correctly.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
500
The idea that the government should interfere in the economy by spending more than it has (deficit spending) to stimulate the economy is better known as this.
What is Keynesian Economics?
500
This was the New Deal law designed to help save farmers. Basically, it paid farmers to grow less crops, therefore increasing the price of their products in the store. I need a FULL NAME for full credit.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
500
This New Deal agency hired millions of young men to work in park cleaning and conservation. (Can be acronym or full name)
What is the CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps?
500
This is the largest index in the current stock market. It includes companies such as McDonald's and American Express. It was also the largest index in 1929.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial?
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