The Great Depression
This event in 1929 is often seen as the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This president created the New Deal programs.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Duke Ellington was famous for playing and composing this type of music.
What is jazz?
Jesse Owens was best known for competing in this type of event.
What is track and field?
Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing this famous novel.
What is Gone with the Wind?
Many families moved west in search of work because farmland was destroyed by this environmental disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The New Deal program known as the CCC gave people jobs doing this type of work.
What is conservation/outdoor work (planting trees, parks)?
Ellington was not only a performer but also created many musical pieces. A person who writes music is called this.
What is a composer?
Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the Olympics held in this country in 1936.
What is Germany?
Mitchell’s book is set during and after this conflict in U.S. history.
What is the Civil War?
These temporary communities of makeshift houses were named after President Hoover
What are Hoovervilles?
This New Deal program built dams to provide electricity to Tennessee and other surrounding rural areas.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Ellington was famous for playing this instrument.
What is the piano?
Owens set a world record in this jumping event.
What is the long jump?
Mitchell was from this U.S. city, which influenced her writing.
What is Atlanta?
This term describes places where people could get free meals (usually provided through charities and donations)
What are soupkitchens?
This New Deal program helped reform the banking system by insuring people’s money so they felt safer keeping it in the bank.
What is the FDIC?
Duke Ellington helped make this decade (the 1920s–1930s) known for its explosion of African American culture and music.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Jesse Owens’ Olympic success challenged the racist beliefs of this powerful leader who hosted the games.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Mitchell won this prestigious award for her novel in 1937.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
The Dust Bowl mostly affected this group of people.
What are farmers?
One major goal of the New Deal was to help Americans in three ways summarized as “Relief, Recovery, and ______.”
What is "reform?"
Duke Ellington often performed at this famous Harlem nightclub.
What is the Cotton Club?
Before becoming an Olympic star, Owens first gained national attention by competing for this college team.
What is Ohio State University?
The name of the main character from Gone with the Wind that audiences related to because of her hardship and struggle.
Who is Scarlett O'Hara?