Roaring 20's terms
Items you purchase for personal use.
What are consumer goods?
Women who wore risque dresses and cut their hair short.
What is a Flapper?
To close down without paying off any of the companies debt.
What is to go bankrupt?
Hoovervilles
What are towns homeless people formed?
The Agricultural Adjustment Agency.
What is the program that paid farmers to farm less?
A law prohibiting the sell or transportation of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Hidden clubs where illegal beverages were being sold.
What are speakeasies?
The cause of stock price to drop.
What is supply and demand? (answer may vary- Mrs. B will judge)
The president who took over during The Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Elected president in 1936.
Who is FDR for a second term?
The place in which jazz was created?
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
The 19th Amendment
What is 'women's voting rights.'
The person who is putting $$ into the bank.
Who is a depositor?
Fireside Chats
What are conversations held over the radio by FDR?
The Social Security Act.
A program made to help the retired and unemployed.
Another name for the 'Roaring 20's'.
What is 'The Jazz Age?'
Name an example of an urban place.
What is...? (Mrs. B will judge this one)
October 24th, 1929
The three main goals of The New Deal.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
The reason The Great Depression ended?
What is America was about to go to war?
Safety and better job opportunities.
What are causes of The Great Migration?
The meaning of the word 'renaissance'.
What is 'rebirth?'
The day the stock market totally collapsed.
What is 'Black Tuesday?'
Young men working on environmental projects.
Who are members of the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The program that was deemed unconstitutional.
What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?