The 1920s
The Stock Market
The Great Depression
Potpourri
100

The 19th Amendment gave which group of people the right to vote?

Women

100

What is the term for when the market enters a long, extended period of recession?

A depression

100
What was Roosevelt's set of policies to combat the Great Depression?

The New Deal

100

Who was president during WWI?

Woodrow Wilson?

200

This was the movement of Black people to northern cities due to the availability of factory jobs

The Great Migration

200

This organization was formed to monitor and regulate the stock market

The SEC

200

This was an environmental disaster in the Great Plains caused by over-farming.

The Dust Bowl

200

This act requires workers to contribute to a trust which is then received by the elderly and disabled.

Social Security

300

What was "prohibition?"

The ban of alcohol

300

This is when investors buy stock for what they believe they will be worth, not their actual value

Speculation
300

Who was president when the stock market crashed in 1929?

Herbert Hoover

300

This theory of economics believes that the government should intervene in the economy.

Keynesianism

400

These were organized prosecutions and deportations of suspected communists and anarchists in the 1920s.

The Palmer Raids.

400

What is the animal-term for when the market enters a strong period?

A Bull Market

400

The 3 Rs of the New Deal

Relief, Recovery, & Reform

400

This administration was created to insure deposits made by investors in the event a bank fails.

The FDIC

500

F. Scott Fitzgerald coined what term for the 1920s

"The Jazz Age"

500

This is the term for the sum of household, government, and business spending.

Aggregate demand

500

This event truly ended the Great Depression.

WWII

500

FDR wanted to expand the Supreme Court to this many justices.

15