Roaring 20s and Great Depression Review

What amendment made it legal for women to vote in the United States?

• 18

• 19

• 20

• 21

What is a Bull Market?

• Stock prices are are decreasing, people are selling their stocks

• Stocks are remaining steady, people are not buying or selling

• Prices of stock are slowly increasing, people are unsure if they should buy

• Prices of stocks are rising, people are buying stocks

What is a Bear Market?

• Stock prices are are decreasing, people are selling their stocks

• Stocks are remaining steady, people are not buying or selling

• Prices of stock are slowly increasing, people are unsure if they should buy

• Prices of stocks are rising, people are buying stocks

What happened which caused the Great Depression?

• World War ended

• The Dust Bowl began

• The stock market crashed in 1929

• President Coolidge was elected

Which event took place in the Great Plains of the central U.S. which ruined farmland?

• Prohibition

• The Dust Bowl

• Roaring 20s

• The Stock Market crash

What did President Roosevelt do as a way to try and fix the economic depression?

• Create shantytowns

• Create the New Deal

• Design an assembly line

• Begin the Dust Bowl

What is escapism?

• Escaping out of the war

• Escaping from the police during prohibition

• escaping out of their Hoovervilles

• turning to books, movies, etc, to escape their daily hardships of the depression

What was life like during the 1920s in America?

• People were confident in the stock market, people were excited

• People were looking for jobs

• People were afraid of the future

• People were enjoying cars, radios, talkies, sports

What did President Hoover do to try fixing the depression?

• Close the banks

• Build Hoovervilles for people

• Public works projects to employ people (jobs)

• let the people try to solve it on their own

What did President Roosevelt do to try fixing the depression?

• Public works projects to make jobs for people

• New Deal

• Close banks and only reopen when they are stable

• Wagner Act to improve working conditions