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The Roaring Twenties and Great Depression Study Guide
The Roaring Twenties
1. What is a flapper? carefree young women with short hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts.
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2. What is Prohibition? What amendment started Prohibition? The 18 amendment made it illegal to manufacture,
transport, and sell alcohol.
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3. What amendment repealed Prohibition? 21 Amendment
4. What is a speakeasy? Bootlegger? Illegal establishments created as place for people to drink alcoholic beverages.
Bootleggers made and smuggled alcohol illegally and promoted organized crime.
5. Name three examples of labor-saving products. Vacuum, electric oven, washing machine
6. What is credit? to pay a certain amount and take the product home then pay monthly until it was paid for.
7. What three items led to the economic boom in the 1920s? Consumer goods, credit, advertisements
8. What was the Great Migration? What caused the Great Migration? During World War I, African Americans moved
to northern cities in search of jobs. Jobs for African Americans in the South were scarce and low paying and African
Americans faced discrimination and violence in the South
9. Name the artist that painted urban and southwest scenes? Georgia O'Keeffe
10. Name the novelist who portrayed the strength of poor migrant workers during the 1930s. John Steinbeck
11. What composer wrote popular musicals and operas (Rhapsody in Blues/Porgy and Bess)? George Gershwin
12. What novelist wrote about the Jazz Age in the 1920s? F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. What American composer combined classical music and American jazz and folk music? Aaron Copland
14. What was the Harlem Renaissance? an explosion of art from the African American Community that focused on the
experience of African Americans in the U.S.
15. What painter chronicled the Great Migration? Jacob Lawrence
16. Name the poet who combined the experience of African and American cultural roots. Langston Hughes
17. Name two jazz musicians from the Harlem Renaissance. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong
18. Name a famous blues singer from the Harlem Renaissance. Bessie Smith
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The Great Depression
Define the following vocabulary words:
1. Stock on Margin
A place where stocks and bonds are “traded” –
meaning bought and sold
2. Over speculate
Buying more stock than one can afford because your
think the economy will continue to get better
3. Over production
Producing more goods than people can buy
4. Federal Reserve
The nation’s bank that supports all the countries’ banks
5. Tariff
A tax on goods bought from another country
6. Social Security Money that is taken out of one’s pay
check by the government and returned to that
person when they retire
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What years are considered the Great Depression?
1929-1939
8. List 6 causes of the Great Depression.
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Overproduction
Over speculated on Stocks
Banks Failed
Federal Reserve failed to save failing banks
High Tariffs
9. What year did the Stock Market crash? What is the nickname of the day stock plunged?
Oct. 24, 1929, Black Tuesday
10. Who was president when the stock market crashed?
Hoover
11. What happed to banks when people could not afford to pay their loans?
Banks closed down and many families lost their life savings.
12. How did the economic boom of the 1920s lead to the economic bust of the 1930s?
1. Overproduction of consumer goods during the 1920s. 2. Abuse of credit during the 1920s on consumer goods
and stock.
13. What highest percentage of people unemployed in the 1930’s? 25%
14. What was the name of FDR’s program to help the country recover from the Great Depression?
The New Deal
15. List 5 major parts of FDR’s New Deal. Briefly explain each part.
1. Social Security: Workers began making a small payment from every paycheck to build a fund that would provide
retirement money for people turning 65
2. Federal Work Programs: Large-scale programs were started, giving 10 million. Americans jobs building public
works such as bridges, dams, roads, and schools.
3. Farm Security Administration: provided low-interest loans to sharecroppers and farm laborers to buy their own
farms.
4. Labor Rights: Set a national minimum wage for workers and gave protection to men and women who wanted to
form unions
5. Environmental Improvement: New roads, bridges, tunnels, dams and conservation, programs changed the
American landscape.
16. What ended the Great Depression?
World War II