Show:
The Roaring Twenties
Great Depression Causes
Great Depression Effects
Stock Market Crash
Misc.
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What is one technology from the roaring twenties?
Automobile, radio, movies
100
What was "Black Tuesday"?
The day that the stock market crashed.
100
People did not have a lot of money during the Depression. Because of this, they bought fewer products. When fewer products were being bought, what happened to the factories?
They either closed or cut down on production (produced less products.)
100

When did the stock market start to crash?

1929

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What were Hoovervilles?

Homeless camps 

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How did radio change American culture?
It became a form of entertainment.
200
There was a surplus of crops after World War I. What does "surplus" mean, and what effect did the surplus have on American farmers?
A surplus is when there is too much of a product. Crop prices fell and farmers lost their jobs.
200
When factories closed and cut back on production, what happened to people who worked at the factories?
People lost their jobs.
200

What are the three biggest days of the stock market crash?

Black Thursday, Black Monday, and Black Tuesday

200
This president was blamed for the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover.
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How did commercials effect American culture?
People started to buy the products that the heard about in commercials.
300
Why did the banks close?
Too many people had bought stocks on credit and could not pay the money back. People tried to take all of their money out of savings, and the bank did not have enough money to give to each customer. Many people lost all of their savings.
300
During the Great Depression, crop prices went down even more. What happened because of this?
Farmers lost their jobs because they were not making enough money.
300

Many people did this out of fear.

Took their money out of banks and sold their stocks

300

Identify the appositive in this sentence. "My old professor, an 80 year old woman named Beth, gave me an A on all my papers.

an 80 year old woman named Beth
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How did going to the movies changed American culture?
People began to copy the style of their favorite stars.
400
What is a stock? Why did the stock prices fall leading up to the Great Depression?
A stock is a share of a company. Stock prices fell because companies were not making as much money.
400
Americans were unhappy with Herbert Hoover because they blamed him for the Great Depression. What happened because of this.
Franklin Roosevelt was elected in 1932.
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What does "on margin" mean?

Buying on credit

400

What does the word "Monarch" mean?

Royalty

500
What was Prohibition?
The complete ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
500
What happened when oil and concrete replaced coal and timber as sources for fuel and construction?
People in coal mines and lumber mills lost their jobs.
500
During the Depression many people lost their homes. They built small homes called shanties out of cheap materials. What were towns of these shanties called?
Hoovervilles.
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Why did so many people go into poverty after the crash?

Many were in so much debt that they had to sell everything

500

Name on artist Ms. Hutto played on the smartboard from the 1920s.

Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong