Economy
The depression
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Vocabulary
100
A New Deal program that is still in effect today.
What is Social Security, Minimum Wage, or Banking Regulations?
100
A huge economic downturn become known as this.
What was the Great Depression?
100
Place where the Dust Bowl happened?
What were the Great Plains?
100
Regions that got hit by severe drought and dust storms during the Great Depression.
What where the Dust Bowls?
100
A person who flies a plane
What is an aviator?
200
A major business that crashed starting the Great Depression.
What is the stock market?
200
Man elected President in 1932.
Who was Franklin Delano Rosevelt (FDR)?
200
People felt like life was roaring forward like a speeding car.
Why did the 1920's become known as the "Roaring Twenties"?
200
Technology that gave people more free time and made their lives easier.
What is electricity?
200
Something owed, such as money, goods, or services
What is debt?
300
He got elected because he promised a New Deal.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
300
The President when the depression began.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
300
The selling and drinking of alcoholic beverages
What did the Eighteenth Amendment attempt to prohibit?
300
An important change for women in the 1920's.
What was the right to vote?
300
An organization that helps people in need.
What is charity?
400
The decade that the economy start to crash.
What are the 1920's?
400
President Hoover's strategy for improving the economy.
What was wait for the economy to improve, and then ask Congress to help business and unemployed workers?
400
People could travel long distances easier, farmers could travel to get supplies from bigger cities.
What was the impact of increased car ownership?
400
25 percent
How many people in the United States were unemployed by 1932?
400
A time when people can't find work and many bussinesses close.
What is a depression?
500
October 29, 1929
When was Black Tuesday?
500
By 1933, this percentage of workers were unemployed.
What was 25%?
500
The Stock Market Crash
What event put an end to the prosperity of the 1920's?
500
Shacks or cardboard boxes where very poor people lived in during the depression.
What where Hoovervilles?
500
The act of forbidding something.
What is prohibition?
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