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What invention helped spread news, music, and entertainment to homes across America during the 1920s?

Radio

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What was "Black Tuesday"?
The day that the stock market crashed.
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Who was the President at the beginning of the Great Depression?

Herbert Hoover
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What were the 3 major goals of the New Deal?
The 3 Rs- Relief, Recovery, and Reform!
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This president was famous for coming up with the New Deal.
Franklin Roosevelt.
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

A time of African American cultural, artistic, and literary growth

200
What is a stock?

A share or portion of a company.

200

This president was elected in 1932 during the Great Depression and became known for creating programs called the New Deal to help the country recover.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

200
This New Deal agency provided jobs for young men, gave them a place to live and food to eat, and even sent money home to their family. This agency is most famous for planting trees in public parks.
The CCC (The Civilian Conservation Corps)
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This president was blamed for the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover.
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Why did more people move to cities during the 1920s?

New factories and businesses created more job opportunities

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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.

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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
This New Deal agency employed people to build roads, schools, bridges, parks, and airports.
The WPA (Works Progress Administration)
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This person was a native from New Orleans who later became a famous jazz musician/singer/artist.

Louis Armstrong

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What led to the Roaring Twenties ending?

The stock market crash of 1929

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What year did the stock market crash?

1929

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What year was President FDR elected during the Great Depression?

Franklin Roosevelt was elected in 1932.

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This agency also provided jobs to people building dams along rivers to prevent flooding and power plants to provide electricity to the region.
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
400
This Harlem Renaissance author wrote both prose and poetry, mostly about African American life.
Langston Hughes.
500
What was Prohibition?
The complete ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
500

True or False.

The Great Depression was only in the United States.

False
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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This act provides a monthly paycheck to the elderly, disabled, and unemployed. The money is collected from employers and employees.

Social Security Act

500
This baseball player set a record for the number of home runs hit in a season and made baseball entertaining for people.
Babe Ruth.