The Roaring 20s
People
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Fun Facts
100

The movement of African Americans from the South to the North and Midwest

The Great Migration

100

This president is credited for creating the New Deal.

Franklin D Roosevelt

100

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

100

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

100

Franklin D Roosevelt suffered from this disease that paralyzed him from the waist down.

Polio

200

This amendment to the Constitution banned the transportation, selling, and producing of alcohol.

18th

200

Iconic poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

Langston Hughes

200

This amendment was repealed at the beginning of the depression.

18th

200

1 way FDR's approach to the Great Depression different from Hoover.

more government intervention

200

This brand is credited for creating bagged charcoal.

Ford Automotives. They decided to sell their coal waste in bags and the rest is history.

300

A fear of people from other countries and cultures.

Xenophobia

300

Hosted weekly fireside chats.

Franklin D Roosevelt

300

This natural disaster made life even more difficult for those in the Midwest US.

Dust Bowl

300

True or False: The New Deal fixed the Great Depression.

False

300

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.

400

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

400

Directed the film that resurged popularity of the KKK, Birth of a Nation.

D.W. Griffith

400

At the height of the depression in 1933, this percentage of Americans were employed (XX.X%)

24.9%

400

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.

400

Walt Disney studios released a talking cartoon in 1928 titled _________.

Steamboat Willie

500

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

500

This Harlem Renaissance music star performed at Clemson A&M College in 1955.

Duke Ellington

500

This percentage of American homes owned stocks at the time of the stock market crash in 1929.

~10%

500

2 New Deal programs that we still use/see today.

Social security, FDIC, FHA, Natural Resources Conservation Service

500

This grocery store was established in 1930.

Publix

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