The Great Depression
Social Security, Minimum wage, Overtime pay, Union support
What is the New Deal?
What is Democrats?
Short for charisma, or one's ability to seduce/charm.
What is Rizz?
President during the Stock Market crash of 1929
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This was NOT a natural disaster, it was man-made.
What was the Dust Bowl?
An area of shack homes, made from scrap wood/cardboard, named after a President.
What are Hoovervilles?
Who is FDR's wife?
A popular, successful, and independent person (often used ironically).
What is Sigma?
Borrowing money to purchase stocks.
What is buying on the Margin?
What the farmers in the early 1920's did to the land that caused the "Dust Bowl".
What is remove all the grass and trees, causing erosion?
Largest American man made Natural disaster
What was the Dust Bowl?
Historians say if he did not win this years election, we would all be speaking German.
What was the election of 1936?
To focus intensely, especially on schoolwork or a game.
What is to Lock In?
Name of the time period from 1920 to the stock market crash of 1929. (Party Time!)
What was the Roaring Twenties?
Large mammal, with a population in the millions, who roamed the Dust Bowl region, prior to settlers moving in. They LOVED all the seas of grass!
What is the Buffalo?
One out of three failed
What are banks?
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Someone did an exceptional job, usually in fashion or performance.
What is Ate or Ate and left no crumbs?
FDR created this government office to regulate the Stock Market, in an effort to eliminate speculation trading.
Two slang names of the Dust Bowl storms, where dust traveled all the way to the East coast of the USA.
What were the "Black Blizzards" or "Dusters"?
25% of people
What was the unemployment rate?
FDR's fifth cousin
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Sending small, sporadic messages to keep someone interested without commitment.
What is Breadcrumbing?
This is the measurement of stock market trading, when it goes down, people lose money, when it goes up, people get RICH!
The slang name of the people fleeing the Dust Bowl region, usually heading west towards California.
Who were the Okies?