Roaring 20s
What lead to the economic boom of the roaring 20s?
The end of WWI
Buying stock for fraction of the price and pay it back later is called...
Buying on Margin
Name of the shantytowns that poor people built after they lost their houses.
Hoovervilles
Name of the process Henry Ford used to produce automobiles.
The Assembly Line
Name of the act of black Americans moving from the South to Northern Cities.
The Great Migration
Name two inventions that saved time and made life easier.
Options:
- Vacuum
- Blender
- Refrigerators
- Cars
Someone who makes/ sells an illegal product is...
Bootlegger
Hoover did not want to give any _______ because he feared it would make Americans _____.
aid/ help
lazy
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Because of cars families were able to...
HINT: think location
Move out of cities and to suburban areas
When Black Americans escaped the South and moved to Norther Cities, what were they looking for?
HINT: There are three, name at least one
Better education for their children
Better jobs
Escape institutionalized racism
Why did people want to buy new inventions?
To make life easier
Spending time with your family and having more time for free time like the movies is...
The American Dream
What was Hoover's idea of being able to independently work your way out of a hard time?
Rugged Individualism
People buying more goods and services even if they don't need them.
Consumerism
Name one popular form of art from the Harlem Renaissance.
Music, painting/ photography, singing, dancing, theatre, writing, etc.
Buying something on credit means...
"buy now, pay later"
October 29th, 1929 was the start of the Great Depression and was named...
Black Tuesday
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Name the conditions of an Economic Depression
HINT: There are two
Lack of jobs
overproduction of goods
People would walk around with their empty pockets turned out; what was this called?
Hoover flags
Where is Harlem located?
New York
How long did the Great Depression last and what years was it?
(Must name years and length)
12 years
1929-1941
A period of racial pride and artistic development in cities, especially one specific one is called...
(Name the movement and the place in which is originated from)
Movement= Harlem Renaissance
Place= Harlem
"Hands-off" way of running things
Laissez-faire
Name of Roosevelt's three step plan to help America out of the Great Depression.
The New Deal
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Name one Harlem Renaissance Figure
Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Langston Huges, Duke Ellington, etc.