Roaring 20s Culture
What was the nickname for young, rebellious women of the 1920s known for their fashion and behavior?
Flappers
What term describes buying goods with borrowed money?
Buying on credit
What year did the stock market crash?
1929
What were the makeshift shantytowns during the Depression called?
Hoovervilles
Which President is elected and took office DURING the Great Depression?
FDR
What was the popular form of music that defined the 1920s?
Jazz
What was a key reason for the economic boom of the 1920s?
Mass production & consumerism
What were tariffs like the Smoot-Hawley Tariff meant to protect?
American businesses
What was the unemployment rate at the height of the Great Depression?
25%
Who was the president who introduced the New Deal?
FDR
Who was a famous poet during the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
What industry became a symbol of the 1920s economic growth and impacted other industries like steel and oil?
Automobile Industry
What natural disaster hurt farmers in the 1930s?
Dust Bowl
What was Hoover's strategy to fix the depression?
Local/small scale help such as charities or local agencies
What was the nickname given to FDRs programs of the New Deal
Alphabet Soup
What was the name of the movement that celebrated African American culture in the 1920s?
Harlem Renaissance
What risky practice involved buying stocks with borrowed money?
Buying on margin
Name one long-term cause of the Great Depression.
Overproduction, uneven wealth distribution, buying on credit, over farming etc.
What was a common form of entertainment during the Depression?
Radio OR movies
Did the New Deal fully end the Great Depression?
It did not, but it helped. Eventually the US joining WWII will completely end the Great Depression
What trial highlighted the idea of Nativism and anti-immigrant ideas?
Sacco and Vanzetti
What event marked the sudden end of the 1920s economic boom?
Stock Market Crash
What did many banks do when they ran out of money during the crash?
Banks would fail (close)
What did many people do when they lost their jobs and homes?
Migrate - many to California
What describes FDRs strategy to fix the Great Depression? How was it different than Hoover
Federal reforms
Hoover wanted local/small scale reforms