Economics
An exchange mechanism that helps investors buy and sell shares in publicly traded companies.
What is the stock market?
The prohibition of this substance greatly changed society.
What is alcohol?
The economic event which occurred when many realized the instability of big corporations and sold their stocks within one week during 1929.
What was the Great Stock Market Crash?
These wind gusts took up loose soil and whipped it in the air, ruining farms.
What was a Dust Bowl?
Brought electricity to rural areas like Tennessee and provided jobs.
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority?
The principle that the price of an object will change based on various factors.
What is Supply and Demand?
This Amendment to the Constitution gave women numerous rights and changed societal norms.
What was the 19th Amendment?
This was the highest unemployment rate during the Great Depression.
What was 25%?
This was the phenomena that brought about serious water deficiencies all throughout the Great Plains and the mountains.
What was a drought?
Stabilized farms prices, better treatment of land, renewed farm jobs, saved American agriculture.
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
Able to pay off debts.
This was the pandemic which took half a million lives during the Twenties.
What was the Spanish Flu?
The banks distributed these to help customers buy stocks, hoping to get paid back later.
What were loans?
This type of food became rare in the east, due to the inability to purchase it from the Great Plains.
What is fresh produce?
Stabilized, through the means of codes, overall consumer goods prices.
What was the National Recovery Administration?
The total monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders.
What is Gross-Domestic Product?
This was the economic factor of the United States that increased greatly as big businesses grew.
What was GDP?
This was the total value lost of the Stock Market from 1929 to 1933.
What is 90%?
This was the time frame, by year, that the Dust Bowl tormented the plains.
What was 1930-1936?
Provided jobs for thousands of unemployed Americans in areas such as construction and art.
What was the Works Progress Administration? OR
What was the Federal Emergency Relief Agency?
The central bank of the US to ensure money in times of instability.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
This was the car make which revolutionized car innovation forever with the assembly line.
What was the Model T Ford?
This is the stock that tracks the top 30 publicly-owned industrial companies.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
These cities became common migration destinations for those fleeing the Dust Bowl (name 3).
What were LA, Fresno, Flagstaff, Albuquerque, OKC, Dallas, Houston, Fargo, Kansas City, Papillion, or Minneapolis?
Stabilized, through the means of codes, overall consumer goods prices.
What was the National Recovery Administration?