Booming Economy
20s
What were 2 reasons African Americans left the South and headed North?
Jim Crow Laws, KKK, Lynchings, Voting Restrictions
What year did the stock market crash?
1929
Who did FDR crush in the election of 1932?
Herbert Hoover
Who was the Progressive president who cleaned up the factories, streets, fought for worker's rights, and preserved the national parks across America
Teddy Roosevelt
Who was the richest man of the 1920s?
Henry Ford
List 3 cities African Americans went to in the Great Migration
New York, Chicago, Detroit, Dayton, Springfield, Seattle, St. Louis, etc.
A great drought occurred in the plains. What was this drought called?
The Dust Bowl
You believe the government should be involved in the economy.
What was the book called that brought awareness to the horrors of the Meat Packing industry?
The Jungle
What was the richest city in the world in the 20s?
Detroit
The law that demanded blacks and whites be separated
Jim Crow Laws
What caused the Dust Bowl?
Farmers plowing vast fields for WWI then downgrading and not planting anything else plus a giant drought and a decade of high winds.
What was FDRs wife's name?
Elanor Roosevelt
Why was the late 1800s called the Gilded Age?
It looked nice on the outside but living in America was terrible
People were not able to buy the new things instantly that they wanted (e.g., dishwasher, cars, homes, etc.)
List 3 ways the south tried to stop African Americans from voting despite the federal government saying they were allowed to.
1. Poll Tax
2. Land Requirement
3. Literacy test
How did the 21st Amendment help end the Depression?
People spent more money on alcohol and local businesses.
What was FDRs plan to end the Depression called?
The New Deal
Who was the richest man in the world during the late 1800s/early 1900s?
John D Rockefeller
List 3 industries that grew because of cars.
Rubber
Steel Construction
Glass Fast Food
Suburbs Oil
How did the Harlem Renaissance help African Americans?
Brought awareness to societies problems,
Celebrated the good things of African American society,
Got white fans to respect African American society
Explain how the stock market crash of 1929 led to the Great Depression
Shareholders sell their stock
Companies go out of business
Companies cant pay their loans back to bankPeople get fired
Bank takes everyones deposits
What were the 3 categories that all of the many New Deal organizations could fit under?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
The belief that Americans were "destined" to tame the west as our own.
Manifest Destiny