The Stock Market
What is the term for buying stocks with borrowed money?
What is buying on margin?
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement centered in which New York City neighborhood?
What is Harlem
The Dust Bowl primarily affected which region of the United States?
What is the Great Plains?
What was the name of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s program to combat the Great Depression?
What is the New Deal?
What phrase described the economic prosperity and cultural change of the 1920s?
What is the “Roaring Twenties”?
On what day did the stock market officially crash, marking the start of the Great Depression?
What is Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)?
Who was the famous jazz musician known as the "King of Swing" during the Harlem Renaissance era?
Who is Duke Ellington?
What natural and human factors caused the Dust Bowl?
What is drought and over-farming that removed protective grasses?
What percentage of the American workforce was unemployed at the height of the Great Depression?
What is about 25%?
What new household technology became widespread in the 1920s and helped spread news and entertainment?
What is the radio?
What caused many banks to fail after the stock market crash?
What is that people withdrew all their money, leading to bank runs?
What was the main goal of the Harlem Renaissance?
What is to celebrate African American culture through art, music, and literature?
Many families migrated from the Dust Bowl to which state in search of work?
What is California?
What were the makeshift communities of homeless people called during the Great Depression?
What are Hoovervilles?
What type of music became the symbol of the 1920s’ cultural boom?
What is jazz?
Why did overproduction contribute to the stock market crash?
What is that businesses produced more goods than consumers could buy, causing prices to fall?
The name of the movement of African Americans from the South to the North.
What is the Great Migration?
What nickname was given to the farmers and families who fled the Dust Bowl?
Hint: Named after a certain state
What are "Okies"?
What major government project provided electricity and jobs to the South during the Depression?
Hint: My father-in-law retired from this federal organization.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
What government policy of the 1920s aimed to protect American industries but hurt international trade during the Bust?
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
What economic principle describes the excessive confidence in rising stock prices before the crash?
What is speculation?
Name one organization that was created to help African Americans during the early 1900's.
1. NAACP
2. Urban League
Which famous photographer captured the suffering of Dust Bowl migrants in photos like "Migrant Mother"?
Who is Dorothea Lange?
What Supreme Court challenge did some New Deal programs face?
What is that they were declared unconstitutional for giving too much power to the federal government?
What invention by Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing and made cars more affordable to average Americans?
What is the assembly line?