What are The Roaring 20s, The Jazz Age, and The New Era
100
Tuesday, October 29,1929, the day the stock market crashed, is known by this colorful name.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
Farmers had no money to hire people to harvest, so this happened to the crops
What is they were wasted?
100
No rain and farmers plowing up the grasses caused this.
What is The Dust Bowl?
100
Even though no one wanted war it solved the problem of the Great Depression by doing this.
What is creating millions of jobs?
200
These were cheap enough now that middle class families could own them
What are cars?
200
Since these businesses do not keep enough money on site, and borrowed money to buy stocks for themselves, many of them went out of business.
What are the banks?
200
If a farmer were about to lose his farm, his neighbors would help him out by having one of these.
What is a Penny Auction?
200
Many people living on the plains left and drove here to find work on farms.
What is California?
200
Since most of the men were joining the armed forces, women had to go to work in factories building ships and planes. Their hard work earned them this name.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
300
Families enjoyed these for entertainment
What are movies and radio shows?
300
No one was buying gadgets and toys anymore, so this happened to the factories.
What is they went out of business?
300
President Hoover decided to build this to help create jobs
What is The Hoover Dam?
300
In 1935, President Roosevelt began new reform laws, such as, the NLRA, WPA, and the Social Security Act. These new reforms helped accomplish this.
What is giving workers more money and power?
300
Roosevelt changed the way people view the government. They went from thinking that the government has no business in peoples' lives to this.
What is the government is responsible for the well being of its people?
400
Buying things on credit was a new way of shopping. This was the motto
What is 'Buy now, pay later'?
400
Many people blamed President Hoover for what had happened, so they named things after him.
What are Hoover flags, Hoover blankets, Hoovervilles, Hoover Hogs, and Hoover leather?
400
This president created several programs that helped people get food and jobs. TERA, CWA, FERA, AND CCC were a few.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only president to ever do this.
What is serve 3 terms as president?
400
This man took over as president when FDR died.
Who is Harry Truman?
500
It was a hot time to buy stocks because of credit. This is where people went to buy stocks.
What is Wall Street or the New York Stock Exchange?
500
These were the men who rode trains around the country looking for work.
What are Hobos?
500
Roosevelt concentrated on these 3 Rs to help turn the Great Depression around.
What are Relief, Recovery and Reform?
500
World War II began in 1939 when Germany, Italy and Japan began invading other countries. The United States stayed out of the war until this happened on December 7, 1941.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
500
When FDR was president during the Great Depression, he asked Congress for this.
What is Broad Executive power? (The kind of power a president has during wartime)