The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

Provided jobs for young men to plant trees and build bridges, and work in our national parks.

An arrangement to receive cash, goods, or services now and pay for them in the future.

Period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art, music and literature flourished

 One of the most important acts of the New Deal that built  hydro-electric dams for Tennessee.

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II.

A federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks up to $250,000.

Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought, leaving many farmers without work.

Leading African American jazz musician; he was a talented trumpeter who influenced others.

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt  hoping to end the Great Depression.

A social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, to abolish slavery, and stop alcohol use.

This law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress

A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "My People"

A name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply.

<p>This was the forbidding of the sale of alcohol </p>

Work Progress Administration: Massive work relief program that built public buildings. .

Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the women's suffrage amendment.