2. 1920s-1930s Review U.S. History Pd. 3

3. Before Great Depression Great Depression Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 1920s-1930s Culture

4. This occurs when people withdraw all of their money from a bank at once.

5. What is a bank run?

6. On October 29, 1929 the stocks plummeted to the lowest they have ever been in history.

7. What is Black Tuesday?

8. Henry Ford first adopted this system when you divide operations into simple tasks and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum.

9. What is the assembly line?

10. Cause of the Great Depression, when people pay 10 percent down and pay monthly installments

11. What is buying on credit?

12. These people are known for “riding the rails” and not having jobs.

13. Who are hoboes?

14. During the Great Depression, the fields in the Midwest faced a terrible drought which caused this.

15. What is the Dust Bowl?

16. During the Dust Bowl, these were people who migrated from their Mid- Western farms to California.

17. Who are Okies?

18. This raised the average tariff rate to the highest level in American history.

19. What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

20. One of the key causes of the Great Depression when buyers were hoping for a quick windfall when they bet the market would continue to climb, allowing them to sell the stock and make money quickly.

21. What is speculation?

22. When the stock market experiences a long period of rising stock prices

23. What is a bull market?

24. Radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines make up this type of media.

25. What is mass media?

26. This author who wrote The Great Gatsby – a novel critical of modern society’s superficiality, described colorful characters who chased futile dreams

27. Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

28. Artists, musicians, and writers of the 1920s and 1930s described them as this – artistic or unconventional, which allowed them to express themselves freely.

29. What is Bohemian?

30. This Pulitzer prize winning novel, The Age of Innocence was written in the 1920s by this author who used irony and humor to criticize upper-class ignorance and pretension.

31. Who is Edith Wharton?

32. This was the first talking picture made in 1927.

33. What is The Jazz Singer?

34. These were makeshift towns in the suburbs of cities made of scraps and materials found named in reference to the President who was in office during the 1920s.

35. What are Hoovervilles?

36. Immediate compensation for emergency relief given by state and local governments

37. What is the relief fund?

38. In an attempt to ease the money shortage, Hoover set up this organization

39. What is the National Credit Cooperation?

40. This is the group Hoover used to force the Bonus Army marchers out of Washington, D.C.

41. Who is the Army?

42. This was dumped by farmers on the road to draw attention to their problems

43. What is milk?

44. This paralyzing disease caused Franklin D. Roosevelt to be in a wheelchair during his Presidential administration.

45. What is polio?

46. On March 9, 1933, this act was passed which would require the federal examiners to survey the nation’s banks and issue Treasury Department licenses to those that were financially sound

47. What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act?

48. This person was the “eyes and ears” of Roosevelt during his administration

49. Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?

50. These radio programs were created to let the American people know what FDR was trying to accomplish

51. What are “fireside chats?”

52. Roosevelt purposely had advisers who disagreed with each other to generate new ideas and programs to create this

53. What is a divided administration?

54. These were Roosevelt’s policies for ending the depression

55. What is the New Deal?

56. This is when Roosevelt and his advisers went into the office with ideas about how to end the depression often without a clear agenda.

57. What is a “brain trust?”

58. Between March 9 and June 16, 1933, when Congress passed 15 major acts to resolve the economic crisis, setting a pace for new legislation and had never been equaled.

59. What is the first Hundred Days?

60. This is the closing of the remaining banks before bank runs occurred to put them out of business

61. What is a bank holiday?

62. This was a concern of many Americans when Roosevelt became President. Many believed he would drop this standard to help the depression - which would reduce the value of the dollar

63. What is the gold standard?

64. 1920s – 1930s Arts and Literature Make your wager

65. This Harlem Renaissance musician brought jazz music to Chicago and became one of the most well known trumpet players

66. Who is Louis Armstrong?