Roaring 20's
What is the ban on the sale and production of alcohol?
Prohibition
What was Black Tuesday?
The day of the stock market crash in 1929.
What is a drought?
When there is no rain for a long while and everything is dry so crops can't grow.
What were the three points of the New Deal?
Who was the president who was elected to help stop the Great Depression?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What are speakeasies?
Secret bars to buy illegal liquor
What is the difference between Bull and Bear market?
Bull is a thriving stock market. Bear is a failing one.
What are hoboes?
Jobless people who traveled around on around on trains looking for work.
What were the Fireside Chats?
Radio broadcasts from president Roosevelt to tell the public about his plans and reassure the country.
Who was the president at the start of the Great Depression?
What were flappers?
Young women in the 20's who wore scandalous clothing and defied social norms by doing things like drinking and smoking.
What is buying on margin?
When you use loans to buy stocks.
What were Okies?
Anyone who traveled to California to escape the Dust Bowl.
What is national debt?
The money that FDR borrowed to get the US out of the depression.
Louis Armstrong, jazz musician
Langston Hughes, poet and author
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author
Etc.
Al Capone is also on our sheet but he does not count
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A period of African American Cultural rebirth and growth in popularity in Harlem
What is default?
When you can't pay your loans.
What were railroad bulls?
Railroad security to prevent Hoboes from hopping trains.
What was the Social Security Administration?
An organization formed to help unemployed and retired people still have money.
Who was Al Capone?
A mob boss who smuggled alcohol
What is organized crime?
Planned criminal activities done by groups
Describe the wheat bubble
When the Midwest farmers believed they were safe from the depression because of the large amount of wheat they were growing. But then no one could buy there wheat so they had no money and then the dust bowl happened and made everything worse.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The area where prairie grass was dug up and replaced with wheat, loosening the soil and causing giant dust storms.
Name one of the organizations that FDR created to help counter the Great Depression and what that organization did.
Civilian Conservation Corps- Created jobs by building and improving National and state parks and forests in the US.
Works Progress Administration- Created jobs by hiring workers and artist to build and decorate public places like schools, libraries, bridges, dams, etc.
Tennessee Valley Administration- Created jobs by bringing electricity to poor parts of the Tennessee River Valley
Name one of the 2 Dust Bowl artists we focused on.
Woody Guthrie (guitarist and singer)
Dorthea Lange (photographer)