Prohibition
A secret bar during Prohibition.
What is a speakeasy?
The process that made mass production possible.
What is the assembly line?
The name given to the day the stock market crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
A place where the hungry could come and get free or extremely cheap soup
What are soup kitchens or bread lines?
Which political party did President Hoover belong to?
What is the Republican Party?
The amendment that bans the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
This makes it possible to buy all the new products of the 1920s because you pay later.
What is the credit system?
Situation where customers rush to a bank to withdraw all of their money before it crashes
What is a bank run?
Who organized bread lines and soup kitchens?
What are charities?
Many banks were doing this instead of giving out loans in order to make a profit in the years before the Great Depression.
What is investing in the stock market?
Amendment that repeals Prohibition.
What is the 21st amendment?
Entrepreneur who revolutionizes the car industry
Who is Henry Ford?
A long period of rising stock prices (good thing)
What is a bull market?
Villages for homeless people had this nickname in mockery of the president
What are Hoovervilles?
President Hoover attempted to open up jobs by “repatriating” these people
What are Mexicans?
Three illegal jobs that were created by Prohibition.
What is
1. bathtub gin (or moonshine)
2. bootlegging
3. speakeasies
The scandal where one of President Harding’s cabinet members was selling U.S. land for his profit.
People start to lose faith in gov.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
The day, month, and year the stock market crashes
What is October 29, 1929?
The highest unemployment rate during the Great Depression and in American history.
What is 25%?
President Hoover’s “hands off” economic policy during the Great Depression.
What is laissez-faire?
The law (act) that gives the federal government the power to enforce Prohibition.
Hint: not 18th amendment.
What is the Volstead Act?
This is a “culture” where people spend lots of money on material goods.
What is consumer culture?
The two worst years of the Great Depression.
What is 1932-1933?
This is the amount of people in America without ANY source of income during the Great Depression.
What is 34 million people?
The timespan of the Great Depression.
What is 1929-1941?