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20's and 30's
The Roaring 1920's and the Somber 30's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which amendment repealed Prohibition? | 21st |
| American composer who wrote music (exp. Hoedown) | Aaron Copland |
| American composer who wrote music (exp. Rhapsody in Blue) | George Gershwin |
| Why did African Americans leave the South for northern ciies? | 1. less discrimination 2. better pay 3. better jobs |
| People who illegally made and smuggled alcohol | bootleggers |
| Painter of Southwest landscapes | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| Places to drink illegal alcoholic beverages | speakeasies |
| African American painter who paintd the Great Miration | Jacob Lawrence |
| John Steinbeck wrote about what group of people? | Migrant workers |
| Time period during the 18th Amendment | Prohibition |
| Author who wrote about the fun part of the 20's | F. Scott Fitzferald |
| Popular music in the 20's | Jazz |
| Famous African American who played the trumpet | Louis Armstrong |
| Famous African American who played the piano | Duke Ellington |
| Harlem Renaissance exposed what to the rest of American? | African American Culture |
| Queen of the Blues | Bessie Smith |
| Short skirts, short hair and make up | flapper |
| Who was elected president in 1932 after Herbert Hoover? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| What were black blizzards? | dust storms from lack rain, over grazing and not rotating crops |
| What was FDR's plan to help American recomver from the Great Depression? | The New Deal |
| How many cornerstones (or main ideas) did FDR's New Deal have? | 5 corner stones |
| money that is taken from people's paychecks to make a retirement fund for people over 65 | Social Security |
| work programs that gave people jobs building public works like bridge, dams, roads, etc. | Federal Work Programs |
| gov’t began price supports for some crops & provided low-interest loans to help farm workers buy their own farms | Farm Assistance Programs |
| set a national minimum wage, protected workers who wanted to form unions & those who didn’t | Labor Rights |
| Environmental Protection | Conservation programs and new public works changed America’s landscape |
| WPA | Works Progress Administration – employed people in construction, education, and the arts |
| PWA | Public Works Administration - wired rural (country) America for electricity, built tunnels, bridges, highways, sewage systems, airports, etc. |
| CCC, like the Skyline Drive | Civilian Conservation Corps - put 3 million men on conservation & development of natural resource projects |
| FERA | Federal Emergency Relief Administration – worked with poorest families by providing jobs, health care & literacy programs |
| What were the three big ideas behind FDR’s New Deal? | 1. Relief 2. Recovery 3. Reform |
| 3 New Deal programs still in existence today | 1. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) 2. Social Security 3. Federal Housing Administration |
| What is an “OKIE”? | People from Oklahoma that migrated to the west coast to leave behind the Dust Bowl problems |
| What did farm families do to survive during the Great Depression? | • Sold their farms • Moved toward the west coast to find work |
| How did the drought affect the farmers’ income? | Couldn’t grow crops … and no crops meant no money |
| Why was the area referred to as the Dust Bowl? | Dust storms in the area would turn day time to night with thick clouds of black dust covering the entire area |
| What area of the country was considered “The Dust Bowl”? | Oklahoma was hit hardest but also included parts of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas |
| 3 Causes of the Dust Bowl | 1. drought 2. overgrazing of livestock 3. overplowing of fields |
| What was a Hooverville? | Shanty towns of homeless people that popped up in cities across the country during the Great Depression |
| Which president did most Americans blame for the Great Depression? | Herbert Hoover (Republican) elected in November 1928 |
| What are breadlines? | Lines of people looking for at least 1 hot meal to eat for the day … homeless and unemployed |
| Impact the Great Depression had on America | 1. banks and businesses failed and closed 2. unemployment rate soared 3. people were hungry and homeless 4. famers’ income fell to low levels (no rain in Midwest) |
| How did the Federal Reserve contribute to the Depression? | Loaned out too much money to local banks in the 1920s and had none to loan out when people began withdrawing money in 1929 |
| What is the Federal Reserve? | Bank for the U.S. government – where banks put their money |
| What happened on Black Tuesday? | OCTOBER 29, 1929 Stock market crashed - prices dropped to an all time low signaling the beginning of the Great Depression |
| 3 Causes of the Great Depression | 1 overspeculating stocks 2. banks collapsed and closed 3. high tariffs on international trade. |
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MrsLucci
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