The Roaring 20's and The Great Depression

Goal was to help farmers decrease production in order to raise prices of crops

public forms of communication that reach large audiences

Set up work camps for millions of unemployed young men. The men received pay and housing.

period in which artists used writing music, and painting to express life for African Americans

Provides monthly payments to the elderly, the disabled, and the unemployed.

a worker who moves from place to place to harvest crops

area of the Great Plains affected by large dust storms

Which answer is a reason why Prohibition failed?

borrowed money

amendment that outlawed the making, sale, and transporting of alcoholic beverages

worst period of economic hardship in American history

Which of the following was one cause of the Great Depression?

Employed people to build roads, schools, bridges, parks, and airports.

FDR's main goal was to help the people during the Great Depression. His programs were known as:

the making of large quantities of goods that are exactly alike

How did Henry Ford make the Model T so inexpensively?

place where stocks are bought and sold

amendment that ended Prohibition

The Harlem Renaissance had an impact in the United States on

Built 50 dams along rivers in the South to prevent flooding.

What is one way the Great Depression affected the lives of Americans?

How did mass media help make athletes popular in the 1920's?

the condition of being out of work