Roaring Twenties
This Constitutional Amendment established Prohibition in the United States.
18th
This term refers to a process where you buy a product immediately and pay it off later/over time.
Installment buying / Buying on credit
This term refers to where people would line up for free food given by an organization.
Breadlines
This person was the president when the stock market crashed in 1929.
Herbert Hoover
This man beat Hoover in the 1932 election in a landslide victory.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt / FDR
This Constitutional Amendment granted Women the right to vote.
19th
This term refers to borrowing money to purchase stocks.
Buying on margin
This name refers to people who left the Midwest to escape the hardship of farming in the 1930's.
Okies
This name was given to makeshift communities built by homeless Americans during the Great Depression.
Hoovervilles
These were the "Three R's" of the New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
This cultural movement celebrated African-American music, art, and literature in the 1920's
Harlem Renaissance
This term describes when a business produces more goods than consumers can/are willing to purchase.
Overproduction
This term refers to the period of time in the Midwest where the Great Depression and environmental factors contributed to the failings of American farmers
The Dust Bowl
This term refers to Hoover's general approach: encouraging businesses and communities to address the Great Depression without relying on government intervention.
Voluntary Cooperation
This New Deal act established a federal system of old-age retirement benefits and unemployment insurance.
Social Security Act
This was the name given to the period of time where Americans negatively reacted to the potential spread of communism and other radical movements in the United States.
The First Red Scare
This term refers to people who traveled by train to find work.
Hoboes
Name one makeshift item that was given the name "Hoover-..."
Hoover blankets / Hoover flags / Hoover wagons/ Hoover leather
Thisfederal agency was created under Hoover to provide emergency loans to banks and other financial institutions.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation / RFC
This New Deal program employed young men to work on conservation projects, including planting trees and building trails.
Civilian Conservation Corps / CCC
This term describes the ideology that disliked immigrants and favored people born in the United States.
Nativism
This was the name of the index that tracks the largest, well-established companies in the United States, tracking them in "points".
Dow Jones
On this day, over 14 billion dollars worth of stock was lost on the stock market.
Black Tuesday
This act raised prices on over 2000 foreign goods.
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
This New Deal agency was created to insure Americans' bank deposits and restore confidence in the banking system.