Roaring Twenties into The Great Depression

Describe the impact of new consumer products and technologies during the 1920s

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The Roaring Twenties

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Match the following vocabulary term with its definition

• Someone who buys or uses goods or services.

• To produce many things at once, usually with machinery.

• The large-scale demand for goods.

• The movement of African Americans from farming areas in the South to big cities in the North.

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Mass Production

Mass Consumption

Great Migration

• Consumer

• Mass Production

• Mass Consumption

• Great Migration

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Why do you think the decade of the 1920s was called the "Roaring" Twenties?

• 1921 - businesses were booming

• economy grew --> wages rose --> more $$ to spend

• mass production --> mass consumption

• wages were higher up North

• many moved in search of jobs (Great Migration)

• 18th Amendment - banned (prohibition)

• 19th - voting rights for

• 21st - ended Prohibition in 1933

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The Roaring Twenties

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Multiple Choice

An economic boom is when

• an economy is healthy and growing rapidly

• an economy is declining quickly

• there is an explosion in a money factory

• everyone has a job

Multiple Choice

Which statement explains why the 1920s were called the “Roaring 20s”?

• The United States went through an economic downturn and prosperity brought changes to popular culture

• The United States went through an economic boom and hardship brought changes to popular culture.

• The United States went through an economic downturn and hardship brought changes to popular culture

• The United States went through an economic boom and prosperity brought changes to popular culture.

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Which amendment in 1920 gave women the right to vote?

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Correct Answer: 19

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Which amendment in 1920 outlawed the making, selling, or shipping of alcohol anywhere in the U.S.?

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Correct Answer: 18

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Summarize the challenges Americans faced during the Great Depression.

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The Great Depression

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Match the following vocabulary term with its definition

• The condition of being out of work.

• Central location where people buy and sell stocks in companies.

• Borrowed money.

• A tax on imports.

• A financial share of ownership of a company.

Unemployment

Stock Market

Credit

Tariff

Stock

• Unemployment

• Stock Market

• Credit

• Tariff

• Stock

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You open a lemonade stand and sell each glass for 50 cents. Subtracting what it costs to make the lemonade, you earn 25 cents per glass.

Another stand opens on the next block. They sell their lemonade for 40 cents per glass. What will you do in response?

How would your business be affected if a third stand opens and sells for 25 cents per glass?

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What does the word "depression" mean? Is there more than one meaning of the word?

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• 1929 - Herbert Hoover elected president

• long/severe decline in economy begins

• new technology --> farmers produce more crops

• supply of food was greater than demand

• food prices fell --> farmers earned less $$

• new machinery = less labor --> farmers lost jobs

• factories produced too many goods than demanded

• companies had to cut production + jobs

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Causes of the Great Depression

Multiple Choice

At the beginning of the Great Depression, which president did many Americans blame for their problems?

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt

• President Theodore Roosevelt

• President Woodrow Wilson

• President Herbert Hoover

Multiple Choice

Which situation was a basic cause of the Great Depression?

• excessive profits for farmers

• overregulation of the stock market

• overproduction of consumer goods

• continued increases in wages for workers

Multiple Choice

What caused many farmers to lose their farms in the 1930s?

• Growing too few crops

• Overproduction of crops and costs of machines

• Expensive land and not enough workers

• The Wall Street Crash

• unemployment rose -> couldn't afford new products

• caused economic downturn

• many people bought stocks on credit or with loans

• stock market crashed -> financially ruined

• bank panics caused banks to close

• high tariffs -> kept companies from selling overseas

• drought in mid-west -> Great Plains turned to dust

  • known as the "Dust Bowl"

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Effects of the Great Depression

Multiple Choice

What were two basic causes of the Dust Bowl during the early 1930s?

• strip mining and toxic waste dumping

• over farming and severe drought

• clear-cutting of forests and construction of railroads

• overpopulation and urban sprawl

Multiple Choice

How did an economic recession help cause the Great Depression?

• Americans bought less, causing less demand for goods

• Bank runs caused depositors to withdraw all their money from banks

• The market bubble popped, crashing Wall Street

• Low interest rates encouraged risky speculation

​Causes of the Great Depression

Shack towns known as "Hoovervilles"

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What do you think life would be like for people living in "Hooverville" houses?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression

• Stock market crash

• Unpaid debts from fighting WWI

• Banks make loans that borrowers cannot pay back

• Factories and farms produce more goods than people can buy

IXL | The Great Depression: part I | 4th grade social studies

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