1920s Economics
1920s Politics
The Great Depression
Social Impacts
New Deal Policies
100

This economic philosophy believed that the government should remain 'hands off' when it came to the economy.

What is Laissez-Faire Economics

100

This president led the nation into the 1920s and advocated for a 'return to normalcy.'

Who is Warren G. Harding?

100

This was a major environmental disaster across the central US that coincided with the Depression.

What is the Dust Bowl.

100

This couple went on a bank-robbing spree from 1932-1934

Who are Bonnie & Clyde?

100

What does the TVA stand for?

What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?

200

The Assembly Line was pioneered by who?

Who is Henry Ford?

200

After the Russian Revolution, widespread fear and paranoia about communist infiltrators in the US was known as what?

What is the Red Scare?

200

What is the nickname for October 29th, 1929?

What is Black Tuesday?

200

These were makeshift communities built from whatever materials people could scrounge up

What are Hoovervilles?

200

This federal program uses money from taxpayers and funds people who could otherwise not have an income.

What is Social Security

300

The economic boom of the 1920s was NOT experienced by this group.

Who are farmers?

300

This scandal under the Harding Administration saw oil interests bribing the US Secretary of the Interior.

What is Teapot-Dome?

300

These were radio broadcasts that FDR would broadcast into the homes of American families.

What are Fireside Chats?

300

This was the nickname given to people who moved West as a result of the Dust Bowl.

Who are the Okies?

300

This federal organization guaranteed insurance on up to $2,500 of individual citizens bank savings.

What is the FDIC?

400

This type of stock purchasing saw a buyer pay 10-50% of the cost and receive the rest as a loan.

What is Buying on Margin?

400
The defining issue of the Election of 1928 was

What is Prohibition?

400

The Grapes of Wrath (1939) was written by who?

Who is John Steinbeck?

400

This was a large-scale protest by veterans in Washington D.C. demanding their bonuses 12 years early.

What is the Bonus Army?

400

Name at least one accomplishment of the Wagner Act

What is allowed for closed shops, guaranteed collective bargaining rights, and created the National Labor Relations Board

500

This economic model requires a large amount of spending by its members to support itself.

What is a Consumer Economy?

500

This ideology rose to prominence during the 1920s, was strongly anti-immigrant, and advocated for strong restrictions on immigration.

What is Nativism?

500

What did FDR try to do to forcefully push New Deal policies into law?

What is pack the court?

500

This form of collective action saw farmers intimidating potential buyers of their land and buying it back for cheap.

What are Penny Auctions?

500

What were the 3 R's of the New Deal?

What is Relief, Recovery, Reform?

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