1920's-1930's

Which phrase describes how people in the 1920’s bought things without actually having the cash to buy it (credit)?

• Recession

• Drought

• Buying on margin

• The Bull Market

Which term was NOT Associated with the 1920’s

• Most people used credit to buy goods

• Unemployment was low/most had jobs

• The economy was booming

• Farms were closing/no food for cities

Which phrase meant only a few people in the US had wealth or money?

• Stealing/theft

• Demobilization

• Uneven distribution of wealth

• Paying up front

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What did NOT cause the Dust Bowl?

• Overproduction/growing only 1 crop on land

• Drought/No rain/not or bad irrigating

• No crop rotation/bad farming techniques

• An alien attack on the mid-west

Which word does not belong?

• The Great Migration

• Flappers, bootleggers

• Speakeasy

• The 18th Amendment

BEFORE the stock market crash, which is true of most Americans?

• They invested in the stock market/had jobs/enjoyed a good life

• They were mostly poor living in urban areas

• They did not have any money

• They did not drink alcohol since it was illegal

Which phrases or terms are best connected to the majority of the 1920’s?

• Bear market

• Roaring, prosperous, The Harlem Renaissance

• Debt, overproduction of goods

• Black Tuesday, The Stock Market Crash

Who was the President during

The Great Depression?

• JFK

• Woodrow Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

• FDR

What was the name of homes made out of scrap wood and materials that poor people lived in during the Depression?

• Hoovertowns

• Pleasantville

• Palm Cities

• Shanties/Hoovervilles

Why were the photographs of Dorothea Lange so important?

• They showed how the rich and "The Better Half" lived

• She exposed violations in the meat-packing industry

• She photographed and showed our nation the results of the depression on the mid-west

• She exposed the evils of the lavish spending of the president and congress

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