Vocabulary
The name 1920s era was also known by.
What is The Jazz Age?
The system Henry Ford developed to make cars quickly and in expensively.
What is the assembly line?
This gas-powered technology allowed farmers to grow more crops.
What is the tractor?
"The only thing we have to fear..." according to President Roosevelt.
What is fear?
This insures bank deposits up to a certain amount.
What is the FDIC?
Great numbers of Latin Americans that came to the United States to harvest crops.
The area Charles Lindbergh crossed in a nonstop solo flight.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The condition of being out of work.
What is unemployment?
The President and Congress worked on new laws that focused on relief, recover, and ___.
What is reform?
The Great Plains region was hit by a ____ that contributed to creating dust storms.
What is a drought?
Where people buy and sell stocks.
What is the Stock Exchange?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th?
The sudden, steep drop in stock prices.
What is a crash?
They built roads, planted trees, and did other work on public lands.
What is the CCC?
Mass-produced products were radios, washing machines, refrigerators, irons, toasters and __.
What are hair dryers?
A tax on imports, or goods from other countries.
Tarrif
A time of great creativity in Harlem.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
How consumers had bought cars and other goods.
What is credit?
The TVA was to control flooding in the region of the Tennessee River Valley and provide ___ to the people of the region.
What is electricity?
The Great Depression was felt around the world making it a ____.
What is global economic disaster?
An insurance system to help support the disabled and provide funds to retired people.
What is Social Security?
The complete ban of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
Shack towns that were named after the president during the Great Depression.
What is a Hooverville?
The SEC was formed to protect people in this area.
What is the stock market?
This is something countries were willing to give up freedoms for.
What is stability?