The New Deal
True or False: the New Deal was a series of reforms enacted by Theodore Roosevelt with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
False, FDR
True or False: The day the stock market crashed, October 29, 1929, is known as "Black Thursday".
False, Black Tuesday
Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion.
Flappers
True or False: the movement of thousands of African Americans from the rural south into northern cities between 1914 & 1920 is known as the Harlem Renaissance.
True
Group that took power of Russia after the Russian Revolution
Bolsheviks
True or False: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created to guarantee savings bank deposits after the Great Depression hit.
True
True or False: Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president during the entirety of the Great Depression.
False, became president in 1932
People that believed in a strict interpretation of the Bible.
Fundamentalism
African American leader who wanted his people to return to Africa.
Marcus Garvey
Name one New Deal agency created to provide relief or jobs for people during the Great Depression (not including the FDIC).
Answers may include: WPA, Social Security, PWA, CCC, AAA
Singer and songwriter who wrote songs about the Great Depression.
Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, F.Scott Fitzgerald.
Woody Guthrie
Theory that current life on Earth is the result of millions of years of change and development.
Evolution
African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist & author of "the Souls of Black Folk"
W.E.B. DuBois
What were the informal radio broadcasts made by FDR to the American people to explain his initiatives called?
Fireside Chats
American novelist who wrote the "Grapes of Wrath"
John Steinbeck, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger
John Steinbeck
Smuggler of illegal liquor
Bootlegger
Name one jazz musician from the Harlem Renaissance.
Answers could include: Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong.
True or False: The New Deal is credited with ending the Great Depression in America
False, mobilization for WWII
Which of these is not considered a CAUSE of the Great Depression?
Bank Failures, Smoot-Hawley Tariff, The Outbreak of WWII, Drought Conditions
The Outbreak of WWII
Illegal bar where liquor was sold during Prohibition.
Speakeasy
African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music.
Langston Hughes