This famous duo help developed the first successful engine-powered flying machine.
Wilbur & Orville Wright
These women rejected traditional ways of thinking and lifestyles. They wore their hair short; wore short dress; and smoke/drank.
Flappers
This government photographer traveled around the nation taking photos of Americans suffering from the Great Depression and Dust Bowl.
Dorothea Lange
After banks have invested its customers' money unwisely in the Stock Market; many failed. This government agency failed to prevent these thousands of bank closures.
Federal Reserve
This long-term government program provides money to support retirees; elderly; people with disabilities; orphans.
Social Security
Guglielmo Marconi developed this transformational invention to quickly communicate news, sports, comedies, and soap operas.
Radio
After 13 years of prohibition, the United States had failed to restrict the making; transportation; and sale of Alcohol. Name one reason why Prohibition failed?
Speakeasies
Medical/Faith Exemptions
Gangsters/Rise of Crime
Weak enforcement
This Blues singer became the highest paid Black entertainer in the country.
Bessie Smith
Tuesday October 29, 1929 is known as what day in American History, when the Stock Market crashed.
Black Tuesday
During the Great Depression, the unemployment rate reached a historic high of this percentage.
25% (1 out of every 4 Americans) were out of work.
Electricity gave Americans hundreds of hours back to spend on leisure (fun) activities. Name 2 labor-saving inventions of the 1920s.
washing machines, electric stoves, water pumps, vacuums, and refrigerators
Over 1.5 million African Americans left the South between 1910 and 1940 due to these push factors (name 2).
Examples:
Lack of Jobs
Low-Paying Jobs
Poor Housing
Poor Schools
Racism
This famous writer made fun of the party lifestyle of many young wealthy Americans in his novel, The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In an unsuccessful effort to help American Businesses, President Hoover passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which (helped or hurt) world trade.
Hurt Global Trade. Tariffs hurt trade.
The President communicated directly with the American people often by these radio addresses. The focus of these speeches were causal explanations of what the government was trying to do to help. Presidential Pep talks.
Fireside Chats
Henry Ford and his company was able to revolutionize the car industry by using.... to quickly produce cars.
assembly line/mass production
This New York Neighborhood became a center for African American culture and gathering place for musicians, writers, and artists.
Harlem
This Jazz Age artist introduced modernism and abstract elements in their work. They are best known for urban scenes and paintings of the Southwest.
Georgia O'Keeffe
These communities of homeless and struggling people were named in response to President Hoover's weak actions to end the Depression.
Hoovervilles
This New Deal program hired unemployed single men between 18-25 years old to work on various projects such as planted trees, developed state/national parks, built bridges, flood control projects.
Ex. Shenandoah National Park
Civilian Conservation Corps
Charlie Chaplin and other stars help make this new form of entertainment popular for Americans. These originally silent productions gave rise of a celebrity culture (influenced the way we dressed, how we talked, and how we viewed our world.)
Movies
Alcohol was thought of as a social evil (causing poverty; abuse; crime, etc.) Supporters of the Temperance Movement worked to ban alcohol by ratifying this amendment.
18th Amendment
This former governor of New York ran successfully for President in 1932. His program called for a "New Deal", where the government would create jobs and provide money to struggling Americans.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Americans had believed that stocks would keep going up and everyone would keep making money indefinitely. This risky business practice is called...?
Over-Speculation
This government program insures up to $250,000 of people's money in banks. This insurance program gave Americans confidence in banking.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)