Harlem Renaissance Stars
This poet wrote "I, Too, Sing America" and "The Weary Blues."
Langston Hughes
When people bought stocks with borrowed money they couldn't repay.
The President who created the "New Deal" to fix the economy.
FDR or Franklin D. Roosevelt
She was a famous painter known for urban scenes and flowers in the Southwest.
Georgia O'keeffe
The name given to the makeshift shack towns where homeless people lived.
Hoovervilles
A famous painter known for his "Great Migration" series
Jacob Lawrence
High taxes on imports that stopped international trade.
Tariffs
This program provides monthly benefits to people over age 65.
Social Security
This novelist wrote The Grapes of Wrath, a book about poor migrant workers.
John Steinbeck
The region of the US (including Kansas and Oklahoma) that was destroyed by drought and wind.
Great Plains
Two famous jazz musicians from the era.
Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
This government system failed to prevent banks from collapsing.
The federal Reserve
This group of young men planted trees and built parks (like in the photo on your test).
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
He wrote about the "Jazz Age" of the 1920s (and wrote The Great Gatsby).
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Many farmers left the Dust Bowl and migrated west to this state looking for work.
California
She was known as a famous Blues singer.
Bessie Smith
By 1933, this percentage (fraction) of workers was unemployed.
1/4 or 25%
The three "R's" of the New Deal (Relief, Recovery, and...).
Reform
Aaron Copland and George Gershwin are famous for writing this.
uniquely American music (or Compositions)
She was the photographer who took the famous "Migrant Mother" picture.
Dorothea Lange
The Harlem Renaissance was sparked by this massive movement of African Americans leaving the South to find jobs in Northern cities.
The Great Migration
This is the specific date (Month, Day, Year) the stock market crashed, known as "Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929
This specific "Alphabet Agency" paid farmers subsidies NOT to plant crops in order to raise prices.
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
While the Harlem Renaissance was happening in New York, this general type of music (characterized by brass and improvisation) became the most popular style in the country.
Jazz
The Dust Bowl was caused by a drought combined with this human error.
over-farming (or poor farming methods/removing the sod)