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20's and the GD
Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression PASS Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What defines the Roaring Twenties? | The increasing number of automobiles, the invention of radios and “talkies,” jazz music, and the media explosion all define it. |
| What is mass media? | It is public forms of communication, such as the radio, that reach large audiences. |
| What is Prohibition? | It is a complete ban on the sale of alcohol. |
| what is the 18th amendment? | It outlawed the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. |
| What is the 21st amendment? | It ended Prohibition. |
| Who are two famous jazz composers in the 1920's? | Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were famous musicians. |
| What is the Harlem Renaissance? | It was an artistic movement that reflected African American life in the 1920’s and involved people such as Langston Hughes and Bessie Smith. |
| What are some causes of the Great Depression? | It was caused by farms and factories producing more goods than they could sell; many people borrowing money from the bank and unable to repay their loans; and unemployment. |
| What is unemployment? | It is the condition of being out of work. |
| What did the crash of the stock market in 1929 signal? | It signaled the Great Depression. |
| What were some effects of the Great Depression? | Some effects were that banks and businesses failed and many people lost their homes and farms. |
| What is the Dust Bowl? | Years of drought during the 1930’s turned more than 150,000 square miles of the Great Plains into dust. |
| Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt and what is he known for? | He was elected President in 1932. He created the New Deal, programs to help end the Great Depression. |
| What did the Social Security Act provide? | It provided monthly payments to the elderly, disabled, and unemployed. |
| What did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC do? | It was a New Deal program designed to prevent another Depression by protecting banks. |
| What did the Civilian Conservation Corps do? | It was a New Deal program that set up work camps for more than two million unemployed young men between the ages of 18 and 25. |
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