Vocabulary
What is prohibition?
the period for 1920 to 1933 when alcohol was illegal.
What happened in the fall of 1929 that caused Wilber Foshay to go broke?
The stock market crashed
What did the agriculture adjustment administration (AAA) do?
Raise prices for farm goods.
What was the name of the tower built in St. Paul before the depression and who built it?
Foshay Tower
William Foshay
Did the new deal end the great Depression?
No
What is the definition of the Great Depression?
the 1930s economic crisis that began with the stock market crash of 1929.
Who got lost their jobs and got laid off first?
African American
American Indians
Which new deal agencies helped people get a job repaired schools and fixed roads?
The WPA
When was Franklin D Roosevelt
1932.
Who helped write the law to ban the sale of liquor?
Andrew Volstead
What is a share of ownership in a company that can be bought or sold called?
Stock
To avoid foreclosure, what did the how did the farmers holiday association do?
they bid low, they returned items they bought, stopped banks from taking farms away
Because it brought electricity to the rural areas or to the farms
Why did people want Prohibition?
Reduce drunkenness'
Better and safer place
Name one thing the Salvation Army did to help?
Formed a soup line
what is foreclosure
a legal process in which a bank takes over ownership of a property because the borrower fails to make payments
What new behaviors showed that attitudes were changing during the 1920
cut their hair short, wore shorter dresses, alcohol was Illegal
who helped write the law if prohibition
Andrew Bolsted
Reasons for ending prohibition?
Drinking was still common, crime had increased
What year did prohibition start and end?
1920-1933
What does the IRA stand for?
Indian Rights Association
What was the Jazz Age?
The time period referred to during the 1920s because of the new music people called Jazz.
What did the CCC do?
Planted trees, fought forest fires
constructed buildings for state parks and trails
built roads
Name one things the IRA did.
1. ended the policy of allotment
2 ability to control their own affairs
3 overturned previous us government policies
What happen in 1939?
World War II begins in Europe.