Roarin' 20s
The usage of this allowed for people to gather around and listen to FDR's fireside chats, and helped provide families with an "escape" from hard times during the depression.
Radio
What is 1929.
Shantytowns (Hoovervilles) were often a sarcastic reference to which U.S. President during the start of the Great Depression.
President Herbert Hoover
The homeless camps that emerged on the outsides of most major US cities since many could not afford to make house payments or pay for heat or power.
What are HOOVERVILLES?
(Or SHANTYTOWNS)
This New Deal program strived to help farmers struggling during the Great Depression by paying farmers to not farm part of their land (in hopes of increasing crop prices).
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
The name given to women of the 20s who dressed, talked, and behaved differently than what was "expected" by society at the time.
What are FLAPPERS?
In the first year of the Depression, 800 of these institutions closed- leaving many to lose their entire life savings and nowhere to turn for help.
What are banks
This 3-letter President elected after Herbert Hoover, flipped the reach of government and passed 15 new policies & programs in his first 100 days as president.
Who is FDR?
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
The name given to the period & location of severe drought and intense windstorms throughout the US prairielands.
What is the DUSTBOWL?
This New Deal program had a special connection to the Midwest as it aimed to protect the conservation of our US forests.
What is the CCC?
(Civilian Conservation Corps)
The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution banned the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol in the United States, and sparked the era in US history known as this.
What is PROHOBITION?
He was the newly elected president at the time of the Stock Market Crash- though his policies and ideas on the presidency had much in common with his Republican predecessors (had a hands-off approach).
Who is HERBERT HOOVER?
The ripple effects of the Great Depression were felt globally and gave rise to an increase in Dictatorship governments; namely this foreign dictator- who took advantage of the fall of the Weimar Republic.
Who is Adolph Hitler?
These were established early in the Great Depression to help people survive, but did little to fix the overarching issues that were causing people to need it.
What are (BREADLINES, SOUP KITCHENS, DIRECT RELIEF)
Any of these work!
President FDR would get on the radio to reinstall hope across America in these cozily named broadcasts.
What are Fireside Chats?
The end of this global conflict sent veterans returning home with a new-found wealth that they were able to spend and invest like the everyday family never could before.
What is WWI?
(World War 1)
This term refers to the bank taking back land or property (like a house) when someone can't make payments- an estimated 273,000 lost their homes in 1932 alone.
What is FORECLOSURE?
The 3 Republican presidents of the Roarin' 20s all had a hands-off philosophy on how the President should be involved in people's lives and in controlling the economy; this is another way to describe that approach.
What is LAISSEZ-FAIRE?
The 3 main causes of the Great Depression were the Stock Market Crash, the Dust Bowl, this 3rd reason?
What is BANK FAILURE?
(Or Deflation; note this is not inflation- but the opposite)
This nickname for the collection of acronym'ed New Deal programs had nothing to do with Campbells, but everything to do with boosting jobs in the US economy!
What is Alphabet Soup?