The Roaring Twenties
This political party dominated the presidency throughout the 1920s.
What is the Republican Party?
This term refers to the risky practice of buying stocks with borrowed money.
What is speculation?
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 until this year.
What is 1941?
This racial group faced nearly double the national unemployment rate during the Great Depression.
Who are African Americans?
In 1928, Americans continued to support Republican leadership by electing this president.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
On October 29, 1929, this infamous event caused investors to panic as stock prices plummeted.
What is Black Tuesday?
Shantytowns built by homeless Americans during the Great Depression were named after this president.
(What are Hoovervilles?)
Many African American sharecroppers lost their land and moved to this region in search of work.
What is the North?
Despite the economic boom of the 1920s, this group of workers struggled due to declining crop prices.
Who are farmers?
This financial disaster marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
(What is the stock market crash of 1929?
This term refers to the long lines of people waiting for free food from charities and public agencies.
What are bread lines?
Many white Americans in the Southwest pushed for this policy, which sent Mexican immigrants and their American-born children back to Mexico.
What is repatriation?)
The prosperity of the 1920s was uneven, as this small percentage of Americans controlled as much wealth as the bottom 42%.
What is 0.1 percent?)
A major cause of the stock market crash was the unrealistic rise in stock prices due to this type of excessive buying and selling.
What is frantic speculation?
This environmental disaster, caused by drought and overfarming, devastated the Great Plains in the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Tenant farmers during the Great Depression worked under this type of landowner rather than owning their own farms.
What are bigger landowners?
Many Americans used this type of borrowing to purchase goods they couldn’t afford immediately, masking economic problems.
What is easy credit?
As a response to the crisis, the U.S. government passed this tariff, which worsened the depression by shutting down international trade.
(What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
Many people who fled the Dust Bowl to California were given this nickname.
What are Okies?
The collapse of this industry hit rural America particularly hard, causing massive foreclosures between 1930 and 1934.
What is farming?