Land Boom
Define Boom
Boom is a period of rapid growth.
What term refers to financial ruin?
What is a bust?
Which inventor said, "Genius is one percent inspirations, (and) ninety-nine percent perpirations."?
Who is Thomas Edison
This term means a period of severe economic hardship.
depression
What is relief?
Financial Aid
This word means making a large number of products quickly.
What is mass production?
Mass production produced cars faster and cheaper, therefore many people could afford a car. Cars allowed Floridians to travel farther.
What year was Florida's economy starting to suffer?
What is 1925?
What did John Gorrie invent?
Air Conditioning
What crashed in 1929?
The Stock Market
What president created the New Deal?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
When was the Land Boom in Florida?
In the 1920's
What happened in 1925 that led to the land bust?
The winter of 1925 was extremely cold for Florida, and the summer afterward was very hot. As a result, tourists and land buyers were scared away from buying land.
In what year was the phonograph invented?
1877
What is a stock?
Stocks are shares of ownership of a company.
One important New Deal project was the Overseas Highway, which connected _________ to Key West.
What is Miami
Which industry contributed to the growth of Miami in the 1920's?
Tourism
In 1926, a ___________ hit Miami destroying much of the city and resort hotels?
What is hurricane?
This inventor helped the Navy in FL especially the submarines?
Who is Thomas Edison?
Who was blamed for not stopping the depression?
President Herbert Hoover
What was created by the New Deal?
jobs
What wars ended as Florida started their period of rapid growth?
What was the Spanish American War and World War I
What pest killed most of Florida's crops in 1929?
What is the Mediterranean fruit fly
Who developed substitutes for dyes, medicine, and other items?
Who is Thomas Edison?
Who was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings?
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was a Florida author who wrote a novel about the Great Depression
Who was Alfred Dupont?
A wealthy businessman who bought a few Flroida banks and helped them start back up again.