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Social Studies Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stock Market | A place where stocks are sold |
| Great Depression | A period of hardship that began in the United States in 1929 |
| Credit | Borrowed money |
| New Deal | Series of programs started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to try to help the nation recover from the Great Depression |
| Social Security | New Deal program that provides money payments to people who are elderly, disabled, or unemployed |
| Drought | A long period without rain |
| Dust Bowl | Name given to much of the Great Plains during the long drought of the 1920s |
| Migrant Worker | Person who moves from place to place harvesting crops |
| Assembly Line | Method of mass production in which a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers |
| Mass Production | The making of large numbers of goods that are exactly alike |
| Mass Media | Public form of communication that reaches large audiences |
| Prohibition | The complete ban of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933 |
| Eighteenth Amendment | Amendment to the Constitution passed in 1919 that outlawed the making,sale,and transportation of alcoholic beverages; also called the Prohibition Amendment |
| Twenty-First Amendment | An Amendment to the United States Constitution adopted in 1933 that ended Prohibition |
| Jazz | A musical form that began in New Orleans,Louisiana, and was influenced by African Americans musical traditions |
| Harlem Renaissance | An artistic movement centered in Harlem, an African American neighborhood in New York City |
| Unemployment | The Condition of being out of work |
| Louis Armstrong | Jazz "Satchmo" |
| Langston Hughes | Poet, writer |
| Duke Ellington | Jazz |
| Margaret Mitchell | Gone With the Wind |
| Jesse Owens | Track& field |