Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
History Makers
Dust Bowl
New Deal
100
This amendment produced a "Dry" America by outlawing liquors but resulted in an underground market that was controlled by the mafia.
What is the 18th Amendment?
100
This marks the beginning of the Great Depression and resulted from a dramatic plunge in stock prices.
What is Stock Market Crash of 1929?
100
The famous trumpeter who popularized Jazz music in the 1920's.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
A series of severe dust storms that devastates crops and livestock in the Midwest portion of the United States. The storms get so bad that it generates a mass migration out of the area.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
This is the presidential candidate who ran the "New Deal" campaign and promised to provide aid to struggling Americans.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
200
This practice pioneered by the Ford Motor company allowed for companies to make a lot more products that decreased costs of production and drove an increase in consumer spending.
What is mass production or assembly line production?
200
These long term causes of the Great Depression produced enormous surpluses due to businesses making to much goods and the working class losing the ability to sustain buying levels.
What is overproduction and underconsumption?
200
Founder of an innovative motor company in Detroit who built Model T cars on an assembly line production.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
The most affected states of the Dust Bowl.
What is Texas, Kansas, & Oklahoma?
200
The New Deal Programs were designed to provide:
_____________ - immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration
_____________ - “Pump-priming” temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand
_____________ - Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters
What is the 3R's? (Relief, Reform, and Recovery)
300
This artistic movement was a outgrowth of the Great Migration during WWII in which African-American artists produced new forms of art, music, writing and culture.
What is the Harlem Rennaissance?
300
The derogatory term given to the shantytowns and homeless camps around America. It the term was meant to be a criticism of the policy of the president.
What are Hoovervilles?
300
President during the beginning of the Great Depression who chose to not provide government support for economic struggles.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
One cause of the Dust Bowl is that the region experienced a severe drought. That problem was made worse by this man made cause of the storms.
What is over farming of the land?
300
After showing cautious restraint through much of 1934, FDR chose to launch a bold new set of programs that established this act that was designed to provide aid to retired Americans.
What is the Social Security Act?
400
This new invention had the effect of uniting the American culture as it was found in most homes throughout the country and providing access to the same content or information everywhere.
What is the radio?
400
This is the result of the Great Depression on American society.
What was an increase in unemployment and homelessness?
400
An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, and is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
This is the primary destination of Dust Bowlers migrating away from the destructive storms.
What is California?
400
After being given an active role in FDR's administration, she used her position to hold press conferences and address social issues and critics of the president.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
500
Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest but at long last in 1919 this amendment was passed to expand suffrage rights to both sexes of the American populous.
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
The practice of buying considerably risky stocks that present an opportunity for enormous profit or enormous loss.
What is stock market speculation?
500
He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, programs.
Who is Huey Long?
500
This New Deal program was created to help regulate the farming industry to limit crop production and set prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
500
This was an attempt by FDR to protect the legality of the New Deal programs that were being challenged in the courts. The initiative ultimately failed and created additional criticism of the policies and the administration.
What is the Court-Packing Bill?