1920s-1930s Review U.S. History Pd. 5

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One of the causes of the Great Depression when goods were produced than could be sold.

What is overproduction?

These were places people went to drink during prohibition.

What are speakeasies?

This occurred during the 1920s when African Americans created art, music, movies, and literature

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

A workplace where employees did not have to join a union.

What is an open shop?

Large scale manufacturing done with machinery.

What is mass production?

Time when loss of jobs & property in the 1930s were high

What was the Great Depression?

Wanderers who would sneak around railroad police and slip in boxcars

Who are hoboes?

Soil dried to dust and caused farmers to migrate West.

What is the dust bowl?

Migrants who came from Oklahoma and other Mid-Western states to California.

Who are Okies?

Articles about life during the drought were published in this magazine.

What is Atlantic Monthly?

This author wrote about life on the Great Plains

Who is Willer Cather?

This communication device was found in every house in the 1920s.

What is a radio?

This was the first movie to have sound in 1927.

What is The Jazz Singer?

This sub-culture group were known for short, skimpy skirts and bobbed hair.

Who are flappers?

Louis Armstrong introduced this early form of music, which was influenced by Dixieland blues and ragtime.

What is jazz?

This was a scandal which ruined Herbert Hoover’s reputation.

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?

This year was when Herbert Hoover was elected president.

What is 1929?

Hoover believed that the American system of “ragged _____” would keep the economy moving.

What is individualism?

This corporation was set up by Hoover in 1932 to make loans to businesses.

What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?

This bill was signed by Hoover in 1932 to provide $1 This bill was signed by Hoover in 1932 to provide $1.5 billion for public works and $300 million in emergency loans to the states for direct relief.

What is the Emergency Relief and Construction Act?

The 32nd president who created the new deal.

Who is FDR?

The paralyzing disease that FDR contracted in the 1920’s

What is Polio?

Programs that were promised during his campaign

What is Relief and Public Works?

During his administration, this person was his “eyes & ears" during his recovery

Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?

During this period Congress passed 15 acts to resolve economic crisis

What is Hundred Days?

This act made the United States Treasury Department responsible for enforcing Prohibition.

What is the Volstead Act?

These were secret bars who sold alcohol illegally during Prohibition.

What are speakeasies?

The policies Roosevelt created to end the Great Depression.

What is the New Deal?

This act controlled what the farmers could and could not grow.

What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

This act was passed to provide security for older Americans and unemployed workers.

What is the Social Security Act?

1920s – 1930s Arts and Literature Final Jeopardy 1920s – 1930s Arts and Literature Make your wager

This Harlem Renaissance author wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God in the 1930s and used personal and spiritual portrayals of rural African American culture and featured African American women as central characters.

Who is Zora Neale Hurston?