Economy
What did the stock market crash of 1929 mark?
The end of social and economic boom
What did the stock market crash of 1929 expose?
Economic weakness of the U.S.
What led to failing businesses?
Laid off workers
decrease wages
decrease buying power
decreasing prices.
Why were Shantytowns called Hoovervilles?
Named after President Herbert Hoover who many Americans blamed for the Great Depression.
Why did people fear communists in the 1920's?
Why did people fear communists in the 1920's
The general belief was that communist forces were attempting to take over the government by a combination of sabotage and force. They were supposedly trying to destroy the economy by encouraging strikes, so that they could then more easily take over the force.
What did the stock market crash of 1929 begin?
The start of the Great Depression.
Why did the stock market crash?
Investors recognized a suffering economy and started to sell their stocks which they bought using credit.
Why did many African Americans migrate north in the early 1900's?
Escape depressed farm economy and prejudice in the South.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Farmlands of the Midwest were destroyed in the 1930's due to a huge dust storm.
How did the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti represent some of the tense feelings of the twenties?
How did the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti represent some of the tense feelings of the twenties?
Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian anarchists who were accused of murdering two men in the course of a robbery. It is widely believed that their trial was unfair, and that they were convicted primarily because of their ethnicity (negativism) and their political beliefs (red scare)..
What is a recession?
A downturn of the economy.
What is unemployment rate?
The percentage of people who want to work but cannot find jobs.
Why did more Americans begin migrating during the Depression?
To find job because of failing farms.
What led to the farms being destroyed in the Dust Bowl?
1.Crop prices droped
2.Famers overplanted
3.Farmers did not use soil conservation that led
4.The topsoil dried up and blew away to erosion by wind.
What caused many Americans to no longer trust workers who went on strike?
What caused many Americans to no longer trust workers who went on strike?
Because active communists encouraged workers to strike, many saw strikes as part of a plot to undermine the U.S. economy to make a communist take-over easier.
What is a depression?
A very long and bad depression.
What is bank failure?
Bank were unable to pay their depositors because unemployed borrowers were unable to pay off bank loans.
What are shantytowns?
Make-shift homes made out of tents, scarp lumber, and empty boxes.
Who are the Okies?
People from Oklahoma began to migrate away from the Midwest to California as migrate workers.
What effect did the Great Migration have on race relations after the war?
What effect did the Great Migration have on race relations after the war?
The Great Migration brought many more African Americans to northern cities than had ever lived there before. This led to tension in two ways: (i) the increase in population led to many black families living in traditionally white neighborhoods; (ii) the (primarily black) migrators took jobs left vacant by (primarily white) soldiers going off to war; when the soldiers returned, many were given their jobs back, leading to anger and resentment.
What were the reasons for the Great Depression?
What were the reasons for the Great Depression?
1.The stock market crashed
2.People could not use credit to buy things
3.Not everyone was able to buy products from American factories because of high tariffs
4.People cut back their spending
What resulted due to bank failures?
People lost what little money they were able to save
Where were shantytowns located?
Parks and other public areas.
What are hoboes?
Unemployed men and women who took to highways and riding the rails from town to town seeking work.
Name three reasons for racial tension in Chicago at the time of the Race Riots.
The two reasons mentioned above, plus the fact that many African Americans who had been to war for the country were now returning with an increased sense of personal pride and a feeling that the way things had been before was no longer good enough. There was a general feeling that the country for which they had risked their lives owed them, at the very least, freedom and equality.