Music and Movies
This Chattanooga resident recorded more than 200 songs.
Who is Bessie Smith?
This is the name of the first self service grocery store opened by Clarence Saunders.
What is Piggly Wiggly?
This is what banks and sellers charge to make a profit.
What is interest?
This is the term that describes a time when there is a very high unemployment number and businesses lose money.
What is an economic depression?
This organization built thousands of parks and trails, planted trees, and repaired erosion to farmlands.
What was the CCC?
These movie theaters only cost 5 cents to enter.
What is a nickelodeon?
This is what movies were called when filmmakers added sound to the pictures.
What are talkies?
This is what companies sell to raise money to pay bills or expand business.
What are shares?
This is the number of banks that closed in the first three years of the Great Depression.
What is 5,000?
This New Deal program gave people land and a house.
What was the Cumberland Homesteads?
This was Tennessee's first radio station.
What is WOAN?
This invention was the result of scientists and inventors sending sounds and signals through the air.
What is the radio?
This is the man who became president in 1929.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This is what people called places that the homeless lived in along the railroad tracks?
What are Hoovervilles?
This program was developed around the Tennessee River and hired workers from 201 Tennessee counties.
What is the TVA?
This famous musician recorded The Memphis Blues and The St. Louis Blues.
Who is WC Handy?
This was the solution Henry Ford came up with to keep employees in his factories.
What is minimum wage?
On this day, more than 16 million shares of stock were traded and 40 billion dollars lost.
What is Black Tuesday?
This is how much the state of Tennessee lost in the Great Depression.
What is 7 million dollars?
These are what workers built to bring electricity to Tennessee.
What are hydroelectric dams?
This was the location of the Grand Ole Opry for 31 years.
What is the Ryman Auditorium?
This was a new way for people to make costly purchase without having to save their money first.
What is consumer credit?
This is the woman that led female workers on a strike in Elizabethton in 1929.
Who was Margaret Bowan?
This was the event that occurred because of a drought, too much plowing, and high winds.
What was the Dust Bowl?
This is what the TVA build to control flooding.
What are low dams?