Roaring 20s
The new found lifestyle of women in the 1920s.
What is a Flapper?
The French saying that described the government attitude towards the economy.
What is "Laissez-Faire?"
This was the nickname for the 1929 Stock Market Crash.
What is Black Tuesday?
People would build these "shantytowns" out of tin, plywood, and plastic.
Fireside Chats were broadcasted on this piece of technology.
What are "radios?"
The new way of life most farmers despised.
What is urbanization?
The groups of immigrants Calvin Coolidge restricted in his 1924 Immigration Act.
Who are the Eastern Europeans/Asians.
The way of buying stocks for a small percentage of what it is worth.
What is buying on the margin?
Herbert Hoover tried to raise these to combat the economic downturn.
What are "tariffs?"
These three words describe the goals of the New Deals
Relief, Recovery, Reform.
Warren G. Harding promised this to America.
What is "return to normalcy?"
The scandal that saw the shady leasing of oil reserves to private owners.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
The way many people destroyed the value of banks during the stock market crash by withdrawing large funds.
What are "bank-runs?"
The people who migrated out of the Dust Bowl in the Plaine states.
Who are the "Okies?"
The national safety net that helps different groups of Americans financially.
What is "social security?"
The new era of freedom for African Americans during the Roaring 20s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The people Herbert Hoover forcibly removed from Washington DC.
Who are WWI veterans?
The period an economy enters if it has consecutive periods of economic decline.
What is a "recession?"
This person would be considered unemployed by the government.
Who is someone actively seeking work? Who is someone who can work? etc.
The people who gained new rights from the big changes in unionizing laws.
Who are "laborers?"
The political ideology of Communism supports this line of thinking.
What is the right to unionize? Right to laborer rights? Etc...
The quote by Calvin Coolidge that summed up his attitude about America's economy.
The unrealistic high many stockholders felt about the stocks rising.
What is the "speculation bubble?"
Two states that were affected by the Dust Bowl. These are "Plaine States."
What is (at least two) Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota?
The organization that gained new control on the economy due to policies like Bank Holidays and the Banking Act of 1935.
What is the Federal Reserve?