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This brought information from around the world into people's homes.
What is the radio?
This group has the distinction of being the first band inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and they are now known as “The First Family of Country Music”?
Because so many Americans bought on this in the Roaring Twenties, after the stock market crash and banks closed, they lost all of their money and couldn't make payments, causing them to go into debt.
What is credit?
Times were so difficult for some families that they found food to eat by digging in this.
What is the trash?
This man was the President at the start of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
These new inventions made it easier to complete chores.
What is appliances?
These were two famous jazz musicians from Memphis, TN.
Who is Bessie Smith and W.C. Handy?
In the Roaring Twenties, so many new inventions of these, such as washing machines and vacuum cleaners, caused many people to go out and spend money they didn't have because they wanted the newest things.
What are appliances?
The Great Depression caused many people to lose their homes when they couldn't afford to pay back their home loans, so some people lived in these.
What is Hoovervilles?
This gave unemployed young men jobs.
What is the CCC?
This was to show others the pride of the African American heritage.
What is the goal of the Harlem Renaissance?
The American economy was helped in the 1920s because of Henry Ford's mass production of this.
What is the automobile?
This was a very long drought for farmers on the Great Plains, which only made the Great Depression even worse.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Because there was more supply than demand, many people lost their jobs. The rate of this during the Great Depression was 25%.
What is unemployment?
The Works Progress Administration, or WPA, hired people for this kind of work.
What is construct public buildings / roads / bridges / artistic projects?
This was created to give people jobs and help American get out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
New technology allowed _______ to improve during the 1920s.
Who is life?
On October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed, which caused the beginning of the Great Depression and that day is known as this.
What is Black Tuesday?
Over 9,000 of these failed during the Great Depression, and only the strong ones could reopen after being audited. Many remained closed permanently. People lost money that was in the bank.
What are banks?
The Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, put people to work building bridges, roads, and these, which created electricity.
What is dams?
Many people that lived in the Great Plains moved west to this state.
What is California?
The National Life & Accident Insurance Company started the WSM radio station and their first radio show was called the Barn Dance, but today that show is called this.
What is The Grand Ole Opry?
The richest 1% of Americans owned over a third of all American money, and the middle class had already gone into great debt and lost jobs, resulting in the middle class being found in lines for free food at these.
What are soup kitchens?
This man became President in 1933, with a plan to help Americans.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This program helped ensure elderly people would have money after they retired.
What is Social Security?