The Roaring 20s
The movement of African Americans from the South to the North and Midwest
The Great Migration
This president is credited for creating the New Deal.
Franklin D Roosevelt
3 causes of the Great Depression.
3 of the following: The Stock Market Crash of 1929, overspending, overconsumption, too much spending on credit, failing farms, banks failing, debt
3 New Deal programs (include abbreviation & full name).
CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps
WPA - Works Progress Administration
CWA - Civil Works Administration
SSA - Social Security Administration
AAA - Agricultural Administration Act
PWA - Public Works Administration
Franklin D Roosevelt suffered from this disease that paralyzed him from the waist down.
Polio
This amendment to the Constitution banned the transportation, selling, and producing of alcohol.
18th
Iconic poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
This amendment was repealed at the beginning of the depression.
18th
1 way FDR's approach to the Great Depression different from Hoover.
more government intervention
This brand is credited for creating bagged charcoal.
Ford Automotives. They decided to sell their coal waste in bags and the rest is history.
A fear of people from other countries and cultures.
Xenophobia
Hosted weekly fireside chats.
Franklin D Roosevelt
This natural disaster made life even more difficult for those in the Midwest US.
Dust Bowl
True or False: The New Deal fixed the Great Depression.
False
This iconic sign in California was built in the 1920s. Bonus 100 points for the original and new word.
The Hollywood sign. "Hollywoodland" then changed to just "Hollywood" in 1940s.
1 reason the KKK grew in popularity and 1 reason it declined (in the 1920s).
Rise: charismatic leader, promoted ideas of traditionalism, preyed on fear, suppressing bad press
Fall: scandals, leader was a murderer, extreme violence
Directed the film that resurged popularity of the KKK, Birth of a Nation.
D.W. Griffith
At the height of the depression in 1933, this percentage of Americans were employed (XX.X%)
24.9%
The purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Built dams for hydro-electric power along the Tennessee river to help extreme poverty in the area.
Walt Disney studios released a talking cartoon in 1928 titled _________.
Steamboat Willie
The presidents (3) of the 1920s and their policies.
Warren G Harding: isolationism
Calvin Coolidge: civil rights and laissez-faire gov't
Herbert Hoover: minimal gov't intervention
This Harlem Renaissance music star performed at Clemson A&M College in 1955.
Duke Ellington
This percentage of American homes owned stocks at the time of the stock market crash in 1929.
~10%
2 New Deal programs that we still use/see today.
Social security, FDIC, FHA, Natural Resources Conservation Service
This grocery store was established in 1930.
Publix