Boom
Bust
Recovery
Business Cycle
Vocabulary
100

What cultural movement emerged in the 1920s and is characterized by this photo?

What was the flapper?

100

What major event occured on October 24th, 1929?

What was the Stock Market Crash?

100

This series of domestic programs enacted during the 1930s aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.

What was the New Deal?

100

What are the phases of the business cycle?

What are expansion, peak, recession, depression, trough, recovery?

100

People who buy stocks on credit are called

Who are speculators?

200

What historical event triggered the cultural movement characterized by this image:

What was the 19th Amendment?

200

What event does this map characterize?


What was the Dust Bowl?

200

Who was the President of the United States during the implementation of the New Deal policies?

Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt? 

200

During which phase of the business cycle is unemployment low?

What is expansion?

200

This woman is an example of what group of workers

Who were migrants?

300

What group of people did not see economic success during the 1920s?

Who were farmers?

300

Overproduction of goods leads to what?

What is lower prices and unemployment?

300

Which New Deal federal agency was responsible for employing millions of Americans to build thousands of bridges, public buildings and parks?

What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?

300

America was in this phase of the business cycle towards the end of the 1920s

What was peak?

300

This happens when depositors panic

What is a bank run?

400

Between 1916 and 1930, nearly 1.5 million African Americans moved out of the Jim Crow south, this movement was know as what?

What was the Great Migration?

400

According to this passage, what caused the Great Depression?

What was speculation? 

400

Some critics felt the New Deal increase federal spending and...

What was expand the power of the federal government? 

400

This phase typically follows a peak

What is a recession?

400

The "alphabet soup" refers to 

What is the New Deal?

500

What was the name given to the generation of young adults during the 1920s?

What was the Lost Generation?

500

Many Americans blamed this person for the Great Depression due to his "rugged individualism" and laissez-faire policies.

Who was Herbert Hoover?

500

Which group of people referred to the New Deal as a "raw Deal" due to the exclusion of some industries in the south?

Who were African Americans?

500

The New Deal moved the business cycle into this phase

What was recovery?

500

This policy established an old-age pension system in addition to unemployment insurance, disability benefits and welfare assistance

What is the Social Security Act?