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7th-8th Grade
Roaring 20's and Great Depression
Question | Answer |
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Assembly Line | a factory method where the product moves along a conveyor belt across the factory and workers focus on producing one job. |
Installment Buying | To buy something by making small monthly payments. |
Red Scare | 1919-1920, a wave of panic from fear of a communist revolution. |
Palmer Raids | In 1920, federal agents and police raided the homes of suspected radicals and communist. |
Great Migration | Movement of African Americans between 1910 and 1920 to northern cities. |
Harlem Renaissance | Expansion of African American artistic creativity during the 1920’s centered in the Harlem community in New York. |
Popular Culture | Music, fashion, and movies that are popular among a large number of people. |
Flapper | A young woman who embraced the fashion and urban attitudes of the 1920’s. |
Prohibition | The banning of the manufacturing, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages. |
Black Tuesday | Name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices feel dramatically. |
Great Depression | a Period Lasting from 1929 to 1941, in which the U.S. economy was in severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed. |
Dust Bowl | Area of dust damaged farms across a 150,000 square mile region during the 1930’s. |
New Deal | President Franklin Roosevelt’s programs to fight the Depression. |
How much did the average American income increase by in the 1920’s? | 35% |
Who was the inventor of the Model T car and changed the factor system to be more efficient? | Henry Ford |
What political belief did Americans in the 1920’s fear? | Communism |
Why did most African Americans want to move north in the early 1900s? | To get jobs and escape racism. |
What new form of music was popular in the 1920’s? | Jazz Music |
What racist organization’s membership rose in the 1920s? | Ku Klux Klan |
What were 4 house hold appliances that were popular in the 1920's? | Washing machine Vacuum cleaners Refrigerators Telephone |
Name two famous Jazz artists of the 1920's. | Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington |
By 1929 what percentage of American families were below poverty? | 71% |
How many shares were sold on October 29th 1929? | 16.4 million |
How high was unemployment by 1933? | 25% |
What did Hoover do as President after the Crash? | Hoover did did very little to help the American economy because he feared Americans would become too dependent on the government. |
What was life like for most American’s during the Great Depression? | By 1936, 9 million Americans were jobless and millions of children were dropping out of school to get jobs. |
How did Roosevelt gain the American people’s trust? | Roosevelt became a calming fatherly figure to Americans by reassuring them on live radio. |
What were the 3 goals of Roosevelt’s economic policy? | 1. Relief- Help the hungry and jobless 2. Recovery- Rebuild the agriculture and industry 3. Reforms- Change the way the economy worked |