Vocab
Electrification
What is using electricity to power something?
What major environmental disaster affected farmers during the Great Depression?
What is the Dust Bowl?
Who improved the assembly line?
Who is Henry Ford?
What invention allowed people to listen to music and news at home?
What is the radio?
What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
What is the stock market crash?
Speakeasy
What is a saloon or nightclub that sells alcoholic beverages illegally? (especially during Prohibition)
Name two effects of the Great Depression
What is banks and businesses closed, people lost their jobs, people lost their homes, and they fell into poverty
Who invented the airplane?
Who are the Wright Brothers?
Name a household appliance that became popular in the 1920s.
What is a vacuum cleaner, washing machine, or electric stove.
What cultural movement celebrates African American art, music, and literature?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Bootlegger
Who is a person that makes or sells alcohol illegally?
What was the purpose of FDR's New Deal?
What is to create jobs and help the unemployed?
Alexander Graham-Bell
Who is the inventor of the telephone?
What is mass production?
What is producing the greatest amount of products possible, making them cost less, and be identical.
The 18th Amendment did what?
What is passed Prohibition, which banned the making, selling, and transporting of alcohol.
Smuggle
What does it mean to move goods into or out of a country illegally?
A New Deal program that established long-term benefits for the elderly, unemployed, and vulnerable citizens, shaping future U.S. social policies.
What is Social Security?
The First Lady who advocated for Women's Rights and Equal Rights for African Americans.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt.
How did the assembly line affect car production?
What is it lowered prices and helped to produce more cars?
The 19th Amendment did what?
What is gave women the right to vote.
The Great Migration
What was the mass movement of African Americans from the South to big cities in the Midwest and North?
What did the Wagner Act of 1935 do?
What is guaranteed rights for workers to join unions, protest unfair conditions, or bargain for better wages?
The President who created the New Deal programs during the Great Depression.
Who is FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
What did improvements in transportation allow for?
What is greater mobility, the creation of more jobs, and the growth of transportation-related industries?
What ended the Great Depression in 1941?
What is the economy began to recover as factories produced materials for World War II, creating new jobs and boosting national income.