The Great Depression and Roaring 20s Test Review

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) did what?

The Works Programs Administration (WPA) put people to work building roads, airports, dams, schools, and hospitals

Famous baseball player that broke home run records

During the Great Depression, many people had to go wait in long lines to get food at a ___________________.

A young girl in the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion

The system of how money is made and used or spent

African American musician during the Jazz Age

Which ammendment gave women the right to vote?

Units of ownership in a company

When the economy was doing well, many people bought goods on ________.

The Roaring 20s was also known as the ______ Age

The act that raised taxes on imported goods?

A place where stocks and bonds are traded and sold

A series of radio broadcasts made by FDR to communicate with the American people were _______________

founded the Ford Motor Company, inventor of the assembly line

Louis Armstrong made history by flying solo and non stop from New York to Paris

A time of decline in economic activity

The purpose of the New Deal was to help the US recover from the Great Depression

What event in 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression?

Many people lost their savings, houses, cars, and businesses when this happened?

What music became very popular in the 1920s?

Time of severe drought in the Midwest in the 1930s that turned soil into dust causing dust storms and many crops to die

Langston Hughes was an African American author during the Harlem Renaissance

Another name for the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was Black Friday?

The Stock Market Crash caused crops to die and dust storms and many farmers lost their farms.

A loan that can be paid back in payments over time

Nickname for shantytowns where many homeless people lived

1929 Stock Market Crash , Dust Bowl, overproduction, debt, world trade issues, and failure of the banking system

President that created and initiated the New Deal

President Herbert Hoover issued the New Deal

President during 1920s and Great Depression

Many farmers moved to ____________ to find work during the Dust Bowl.

Employed young men to work on projects with environmental benefits and conservation of natural resources, like parks

What marked the END of the Great Depression?

A period of time in the 1920s when African American artists, authors, and musicians became popular and did well

The ______________ ran from 1929 to 1941