Great Depression
The economic depression was due to a stock market ____
What is crash / collapse?
The Roaring Twenties ended in what year?
What is 1929?
What was a newly popular place to go in the 1920s for entertainment?
What is cinema / movie theater?
This tracks the number of people who do not have jobs
What is unemployment numbers?
What years were the Roaring Twenties?
What is 1920-1929?
The dust storms in the Dust Bowl had a very negative effect on ____
What is farmers / farms?
The Harlem Renaissance was a literary and artistic movement in the 20s involving what group of people?
What are African Americans?
What was one of the most important new consumer goods in the 20s used to listen to music, shows, and other broadcasts?
What is a Radio?
The "new woman" of the 20s who had short hair, short skirts, and drank alcohol
What is a Flapper?
What major event came just before the Roaring Twenties?
What is World War I?
In order to tell the government they wanted more help, people held ____ to show their anger.
What are protests?
What new method for marketing consumer goods started in the 20's and became synonymous Times Square and Broadway in New York City.
What is advertising?
What was one of the most important new goods in the 20s that made transport more accessible and easy?
What is the car (Model T Ford)?
Official ban on the making, selling, and consumption of alcohol
What is Prohibition?
What major event helped end the Great Depression?
What is World War II?
Why did many people become homeless during the Great Depression?
What is they lost their jobs and/or lost their money in the banks?
Why did the Roaring Twenties end?
What is the Wall Street stock market crash?
What was a newly popular genre of music in the 20s?
What is jazz?
Illegal, secret bars owned operated by criminals
What are Speakeasies?
When did Prohibition start?
What is 1920?
The New Deal was a program initiated by Franklin Roosevelt designed to ____
What is help the economy recover?
What is a synonym for a rise in the economy that occurred in the 20s: an economic ____
What is a boom?
This new form of payment for consumer goods was one of the contributor to the Great Depression .
What is credit?
What was the name given to the homeless encampments and tent cities during the Great Depression.
What is Hooverville?
How many Americans had their own car by 1929? 1 in ___ Americans
What is 1 in 5 Americans?