A long period of unemployment and economic downturn
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What is a stock
A share of ownership in a company
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What is a dust storm?
When a giant cloud of dust blows through an area
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What does "prosperity" mean?
Great wealth/ having a lot of money
100
When did the Great Migration start?
1910
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Gist
The general idea of what a speaker is saying
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How much money was lost in the market in a single day?
$5 billion
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How did drought affect farmers?
No rain means that their crops dried up and died
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How did new inventions in the 1920s change people's lives in America?
The new electronics and appliances made daily tasks easier
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What was a push factor for the migration?
Racism/ Discrimination in the south
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Auction
To sell something off at whatever price people are willing to pay
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As an effect of the crash, what percentage of Americans were unemployed during the Great Depression?
25%
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How did farmers react to the dust storms/drought?
They auctioned off their farms and moved
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How were many people paying for their stocks?
They were buying them on credit (by borrowing money)
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What was a pull factor for the Great Migration
Better job opportunities in the north; better educational opportunities in the north
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Drought
A long period with very little or no rain
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What makes a stock's price go up or down?
How much it is in demand (how much people WANT to buy it)
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Explain what happened to the land to lead to the dust bowl
Natural prairie grasses were plowed and replaced with crops that could not withstand the drought. The ground dried up and turned to dust.
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Why was advertising an important industry of the time?
It showed people the new products they could buy
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Why was it difficult for black people to travel from the south to the north?
Some trains wouldn't let them on; when they drove, they had to let white people pass them; some sharecroppers weren't allowed to leave
500
Dialectical
A style of writing that mimics how people speak
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Why was it problematic to invest in something with no fixed value?
If it goes out of demand, it loses its value and you lose your money you invested
500
Give TWO ways the dust storms would impact people's health/diet
they might suffocate on dust; they might not have food to eat
500
Explain how music influenced how people acted in the 1920s
They could listen to music at home and have dance parties anywhere; jazz was very fast and exciting so the dancing changed; people thought it had a bad influence on people's morals
500
What was the name of the cultural revolution led by black artists in NYC in the 1920s?