Roaring 20s
Great Depression
Recovery
Dust Bowl
100

A risky technique involving the purchase of securities/stocks with borrowed money, using the shares themselves as collateral; paying 10% of the stock price put Americans in debt after the crash of 1929

Buying on Margin

100

The beginning of the Great depression

The stock market crash

100

In Roosevelt's first 100 days, he passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Federal Emergency Relief Agency, and more; an active presidency beginning with many relief programs for Americans

The first New Deal

100

what states where in the dust bowl?



Colorado, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico

200

Most intense outbreak of national alarm, began in 1919. access of communists in Russia, American radicals embracing communism followed by a series of mail bombings frightened Americans. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer led effort to deport aliens without due process, with widespread support.


Red Scare

200

Homes the poor made to condemn the president during this time period

Hoovervilles

200

This gave the President power over the banking system and set up a system by which banks would be reorganized or reopened

Emergency Banking Relief Act

200

how many years did the dust blow on the southern plains ?

10

300


Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition


Speakeasy

300


31st President of the United States, Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. Blamed for the Great Depression and beaten in 1932 by FDR

Herbert Hoover

300

Hired 3 million young men to work in government national parks. Most popular New Deal program, Relief/Recovery

Civilian Conservation Corps

300

the government handed out food to the needy in:

Bread Lines

400

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

Great Migration

400

Democratic president who created the New Deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression

FDR

400

Provided retirement pensions to Americans age 65 and older and benefits for the unemployed, the disabled, and dependent children, The greatest victory for New Dealers; created pension and insurance for the old-aged, the blind, the physically handicapped, delinquent children, and other dependents by taxing employees and employers

Social Security Act

400

helps maintain the health of the soil and controls weeds, diseases, and insects

Crop Rotation

500

a flowering of African American culture in the 1920s; instilled interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American.

Harlem Renaissance

500

October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.

Black Tuesday

500

These were the categories into which the New Deal was split. Relief defined by the acts implemented in the area of aid to the unemployment. Recovery put forth measures that would help aid in the speedy recovery of areas hit hardest by the depression. Reform tried to recreate areas that seemed faulty

Relief, Recovery, Reform

500

man made methods to bring water to the crops

Irrigration