The Economy
When business create more of a product, commodity, or substance than is wanted or needed
What is Overproduction
This was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Who was President during the New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl
The preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods.
In the 1920's this took the shape of the automobile and electronic goods like the refrigerator
What is Consumerism
During the Great Depression, this is when people don't have enough money to buy the goods they want and need
What is Under consumption
This type of music was introduced by blacks in the American South during the 1910's and into the 1920's before being spread Northward by white musicians and Blacks during the Harlem Renaissance. Influenced rock, country and rap. It is the name sake for this "Age"
What is Jazz
This was the time span during FDR's presidency that saw an Unprecedented level of legislation passed and Increased Fed’s involvement in economic life
What are the 100 Days
This President did very little to ease the suffering of the citizens of the US during the Great Depression despite reversing Precedent and involving the Federal Government in someway
Who is Hubert Hoover
During the 1920's this process brought more people to the cities, exposing them to the culture of the cities, and for the first time more Americans lived in big cities than in rural areas.
What is Urbanization
This group faced harsh economic conditions during the Roaring 20's and then the Great Depression due to the dueling crisis' of overproduction and under-consumption
Who are Farmers
During the 1920's, this allowed for the spread of suburbs, brought families together while also tearing them apart, eroded “feminine delicacy” and helped introduced the tractor which increased productivity but also worsened the farming crisis
What is the automobile
This was responsible for the creation of schools, bridges and dams including this building
What was the Public Works Administration (PWA)
This is the group 17,000 veterans of the United States in World War I, together with their families and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates as a result of the suffering during the Great Depression
Who are the Bonus Marchers
An organization or association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
What is a Labor Union?
Often having been bought on margin, playing this allowed some Americans to get rich quick, some Americans to lose it all and gripped the nation during the 1920's.
What is the Stock Market
This event represented the Culture Wars of the 1920's. As it typified the Fundamentalist response to the Modernist way of life. Centered around the teaching of evolution in schools. Tried by Clearance Darrow and William Jennings Bryan
What is the The Scopes Monkey Trial
This commissioned writers to interview former slaves and recored their memories. Similar projects employed artists, painters, and other media creators during the great depression
What is the Federal Writers Project
The failure of these was a result of Americans panicking. It was exasperated by the easy credit of the 1920's and folks buying stock on Margin. As a result, FDR passes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to try to prevent a run.
What are the Banks .
Represents the intense Nativist sentiment of the 1920's following WWI. This prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere
What is the National Origins Act
This set extremely high taxes on imports that stiffled trade between the Us and the rest of the globe
What is the Harley-Smoot Tariff
Mass-circulated magazine, Book-of-the-Month-Club, Radio/Silent films, Advent of talkies and Cartoons all represent what from the 1920's?
Mass-Produced Entertainment/ Homogeneous National Culture
This increased the Fed involvement in a citizens economic life. Included numerous "welfare" programs that are still in place today. Was passed as a result of FDR's move even more leftward
What is the Social Security Act of 1935
The day when Stocks prices plunged, some having no buyers at all, going to zero and is the day we can point to as the start of the Great Depression
What is Black Tuesday. Oct 29, 1929.
This is a person who works despite an ongoing strike They are usually individuals who were not employed by the company before the trade union dispute, but rather hired after or during the strike to keep the organization running. During the 1920's they often were Blacks who then were faced with further hostility.
Who are Scab Laborers