The Roaring 20's and the Great Depression
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1.
bank
run
5.
Charles
Lindbergh
first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean;
his flight over the Atlantic Ocean made Americans
excited about flying and technology
caused when people believe the bank is going to run
out of money
2.
Bessie
Smith
6.
Dorothea
Lange
recorded the song "St Louis Blues" with Louis
Armstrong
3.
Black
Tuesday
took photographs that showed the effects of the
Great Depression on people
7.
Duke
Ellington
day that the stock market collapsed on October 29,
1929; stock prices fell and many investors lost money
when they sold their stocks
4.
changes
for
women
one of the best-known jazz composers and
bandleaders
8.
women gained the right to vote (19th Amendment)
and many women moved from difficult factory jobs to
office jobs
Dust Bowl
region of the Great Plains that experienced a
drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, causing
many farmers to become migrant workers
9.
Eleanor
Roosevelt
12.
wife of FDR who traveled the country to see
how the New Deal programs were working
10.
The Great
Migration
many African-Americans left the south and
went north because they thought there would
be more factory jobs and less racism in the
north
13.
Federal
Deposit
Insurance
Corporation
(FDIC)
Harlem
Renaissance
period of time when many African American
artists moved to Harlem, New York
14.
Henry Ford
new deal insurance program that protects the
people from losing the money they have
deposited in banks
11.
Great
Depression
period of time (1929-1940) when the U.S.
economy was in severe decline and millions of
Americans were unemployed
Causes: 1) stock market collapse, 2) increase in
credit - people borrowed too much money to
buy things, 3) banks closed when borrowers
couldn't repay their loans, 4) high taxes on
imported and exported goods
sold Model T cars at a low price because he
used an assembly line to build them
15.
Herbert
Hoover
31st U.S. President from 1929-1933; called the
"Do Nothing" president
16.
Hoovervilles
20.
Margaret
Mitchell
shantytowns where homeless people lived;
many blamed President Hoover for the hard
times because he failed to act during the
depression
17.
Jacob
Lawrence
author from Georgia who wrote "Gone with
the Wind", a book about the Civil War
21.
mass
production
Harlem Renaissance figure who created
paintings that showed African American life
18.
making of large numbers of goods that are
exactly alike
Langston
Hughes
22.
Model
T/automobiles
wrote poems, books, and plays about the lives
of African Americans
19.
changed life in the U.S. many ways: 1) roads
were improved, 2) created many new jobs, 3)
people could move farther from their jobs
Louis
Armstrong
23.
famous jazz musician who made several
recordings with blues singer Bessie Smith
New Deal
programs that FDR created to restart the
economy; 3 main goals were relief, recovery,
and reform
24.
President
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
(FDR)
28.
defeated President Hoover in the 1932 election
because he wanted the government to fix the
economy through relief, recovery, and reform
25.
radio
one of the most popular mass produced items;
helped athletes become popular because games
could be heard on this
26.
Roaring 20's
term used to describe the 1920's; decade of
prosperity and wealth; Introduction of flappers
and jazz/blues/ragtime music
27.
Tennessee
Valley
Authority
(TVA)
new deal program that brought flood control
and electricity to the South
Works Progress
Administration
(WPA) and
Civilian
Conservation
Corps (CCC)
new deal programs that provided jobs for
unemployed people