Term for the time when many artists (musicians, writers & painters) all came to a certain place in New York to share ideas
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
Before Ford, it took this long to make a single car
What is 12 hours?
100
Name the time period that caused children to quit school in order to earn money for their families.
What is the Great Depression?
100
The U.S. President who implemented the New Deal
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
This changed for Women's work in the 1920s
What is they moved from factory jobs to office jobs?
200
Means of communication that allowed people to hear/see the same thing at the same time; helped create a common American Culture
What is mass media?
200
After Ford, it took this amount of time to build a car.
What is 90 minutes?
200
Explain what the Dust Bowl was and some of its effects.
What is What the Great Plains became because of severe drought and high winds. Many people became migrant workers because of it.?
200
It took about this long for FDR to implement New Deal programs.
What is 100 Days?
200
This form of entertainment introduced Batman and Superman
What is the comic book?
300
Explain how mass media helped make athletes become popular.
What is people could listen to games on the radio instead of actually having to physically go to them (could reach a larger audience)?
300
This is the technique that Ford used in order to produce cars more quickly
What is the assembly line?
300
Describe the economy in the 1920s
What is Many people, especially farmers, had debts because crop prices fell and the economy wasn’t doing well?
300
This New Deal program still exists today. It provides monthly payment to the elderly, disabled and unemployed (sill exists)
What is the Social Security Board (SSB)?
300
Explain why romantic dramas were nicknamed "soap operas"
What is They were paid for by commercials from soap companies?
400
Name the two musicians who recorded "St. Louis Blues"
Who are Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong?
400
Explain why Ford's Model T could be sold at half the cost of other cars at the time.
What is They used an assembly line. It took a lot less time.
400
Explain what happened in the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
What is Stock prices fell, so many investors sold their stocks all at once.
400
In this New Deal program, Farmers were paid to grow less crops to raise prices
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
400
Explain what Prohibition was.
What is Prohibition was a ban on the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol (18th Amendment)?
500
Painter who created several artworks depicting African American life and history
What is Jacob Lawrence?
500
Name at least 3 ways automobiles changed lives in the U.S.
What is: roads were improved; created new jobs; people moved farther from their jobs (suburbs)
500
Name at least 2 causes of the Great Depression
What is: Stock market crashed; High tariffs (taxes) were placed on imported and exported goods; Many people borrowed money from banks that they could not pay back?
500
This New Deal program employed people to build roads, schools, bridges, parks and airports
What is Workers Progress Administration (WPA)?
500
Explain why Prohibition failed.
What is It failed because police had little success stopping bootleggers (people who smuggled it in from out of the country) because there were too many of them and not enough police. Repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment