Roaring Twenties
What decade was nicknamed the "Roaring Twenties"?
The 1920's
What was October 29, 1929 nicknamed?
Black Tuesday
What was the name of the economical struggle period between 1929 to the 1940's.
The Great Depression
The Dust Bowl primarily affected this region of the United States, known for its flat plains and farming.
The Great Plains
This group often faced segregation and “last hired, first fired” discrimination during the Depression.
What are three factors that caused the Roaring Twenties?
What practice were investors doing that majorly led to the crash?
Buying on margin.
What happened to the jobs during the Great Depression?
Unemployment rates spiked to almost 25%, and jobs were hard to find.
This decade was when the Dust Bowl reached its peak, devastating farms and families.
1930's
Because families couldn’t afford childcare or schooling, this increased among children.
Child Labor
Alterative name for 1929 collapse.
The Great Crash
This 1935 New Deal act created a safety net for the elderly, unemployed, and disabled that still exists today.
Social Security Act
A term for a long water-scarce period of time. This term also refers to the long, dry period that, along with poor farming practices, helped create the Dust Bowl.
Drought
The Depression gave rise to this term describing young, often homeless men who traveled by rail looking for work.
Hobos
What groundbreaking technological innovation happened in the 1920's (hint: allowed news broadcasting, music, and entertainment).
Invention of the radio
Lack of serious government regulation allowed normal people to do what?
Buy on margin, and make rash and risky financial decisions.
This U.S. president was elected in 1932 and introduced the New Deal to combat the effects of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This layer of soil, essential for growing crops, was blown away during the Dust Bowl.
Topsoil
This mental health crisis saw a rise in death during the Depression, particularly among unemployed men.
Suicide/depression
This world-famous classic book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925, examines the "American Dream" during the Roaring Twenties.
The Great Gatsby
During the 1929 stock crash, the U.S. government introduced a legislation to curb market risks and increase investment security. What was the name of this legislation?
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
This term describes the economic condition where prices fall, reducing profits and wages and increasing real debt burdens.
Deflation
The Dust Bowl affected these two major sectors of the economy hardest.
Agriculture and rural communites
This novel by John Steinbeck became the defining literary work of Depression-era struggle and Dust Bowl migration.
The Grapes Of Wrath