1920s
The Great Depression
The Recovery
Impact
Sources
100
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
100
The stock market crash that marked the beginning of the Great Depression is referred to by this term.
What is Black Tuesday?
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
This term refers to the long lines where unemployed Americans waited to receive free food during the Great Depression.
What are breadlines?
100
The U.S. Census data collected in 1930, which provides information on population, employment, and living conditions during the onset of the Great Depression
What is a primary source?
200
What group of people did not see economic success during the 1920s?
Who were farmers?
200
This severe drought and series of dust storms in the Midwest forced thousands of farmers to abandon their land.
What was the Dust Bowl?
200
This New Deal program employed young men in conservation and reforestation projects across the country
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
200
As a result of the New Deal, Americans increasingly came to see this as a protector of economic stability and social welfare.
What is the federal government?
200
An article from 1932 in The New York Times reporting on the economic struggles of the Great Depression
What is a primary source?
300
What historical event triggered the cultural movement characterized by this image:
What was the 19th Amendment?
300
This caused a global depression
What are tariffs?
300
Some critics felt the New Deal increased
What is federal spending, government power, and/or taxes?
300
During the Great Depression, many farmers from the Dust Bowl migrated to this state in search of work and better living conditions
What is California?
300
A historian’s book about Prohibition and its effects on American society, published in 1985
What is a secondary source?
400
Between 1916 and 1930, nearly 1.5 million African Americans moved out of the Jim Crow south, this movement was know as what?
The Great Migration
400
These makeshift shantytowns, named sarcastically after a sitting president, were built by homeless Americans during the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
400
This New Deal agency provided jobs in public works projects, including building roads, schools, and parks.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
400
This New Deal act established a pension system for retirees and unemployment insurance, which still exists today.
What is the Social Security Act?
400
A 1929 stock market analysis written decades later by a modern economist
What is a secondary source?
500
The mass production and popularity of automobiles in the 1920s led to the development of this type of infrastructure, transforming American cities and lifestyles.
What are highways?
500
This major infrastructure project was completed during the Depression, providing jobs and generating hydroelectric power.
What is the Hoover Dam?
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
This Catholic priest was an outspoken critic of FDR, initially supporting the New Deal but later attacking it on his radio show.
Who is Father Charles Coughlin?
500
This type of source includes an interview with a person who experienced the Dust Bowl, recorded years after the event took place.
What is a primary source?