The Great Depression
What happened on black Monday
stock market crash
The great American pass time
Baseball
An important African American culture movement that result in jazz and new forms of literature
made the telegraph old technology
phone
What did the 18th amendment do?
ban selling and making alcohol
When stock market prices fall people begin to do what?
Panic selling
Most famous baseball player during the roaring 20's
Babe Ruth
This city in California became a popular place for film makers and actors
Hollywoodland
made horses and trains old technology
cars
What was a unexpected result of prohibition
gangsters and violence
When you have so much products that you can't possibly sell them
overproduction
This new technology allowed people to hear news and games from across the country
radio
These institutions lend you money and in 1929 lead to the Great Depression
banks
This new machine was designed to preserve food and produce for long periods of time
refrigerator
What were speakeasies
underground secret clubs and bars
The process of predicting how much something is worth
speculation
This new technology allowed people to travel long distances on their own without trains or horses
cars
A new form of music that became popular in the roaring 20s
Jazz
This important new piece of technology lead to the rise of national sports hero Babe Ruth
radio
What music was popular at speakeasies
jazz
A central cause of the Great Depression that was a result of millions lost on the stock market and the loss of peoples life savings
bank failures
The term for a modern woman in the 1920's
flappers
The most important of the 1920s gangsters
Al Capone
Pioneered by Henry ford this new method of production lead to the industrial boom of the 1920's
assembly line
At the end of prohibitions mechanics and rum runners who had modified their cars for speed became the first what
street racers