All the money, goods, businesses, and workers that make a country run are called its ______________.

Common names for the 1920s included "the Jazz Age", "the New Era", and "The ___________ Twenties".

When World War I started, over half of the population in the United States lived in the ___________.

By the end of twenties, nearly six out every ten people lived in ___________.

In 1920, the time of ___________ in the United States government made it illegal to sell alcoholic drinks.

During the Roaring Twenties, it became fashionable to go to illegal bars called "___________".

People who made or smuggled drinks were called "___________".

The power of bootleggers during Prohibition led to the rise of gangster organizations like the ___________.

Politicians, such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who wanted to end Prohibition were known as "___________".

The 1920s were the era of "___________".

A ___________ is when you own a small part of a company.

The most important place where stocks were bought and sold was on ___________ in New York City.

Wealthy men could buy a seat on the ___________ where they were allowed to buy and sell stock.

When people bought and sold shares of a company for other people, they were called ___________.

Even people without money wanted to buy stocks, so they ___________.

Out-of-control growth is called a ___________.

As long as people are eager to buy, the price shoots up without any connection to its real value, and the bubble gets bigger and bigger, but the trouble with bubbles is, they ___________.

In the 1920s, Florida lots became so hot that some were bought and resold ___________ times in a single day.

Some buyers even bought land without seeing it first and when a huge ___________ hit, no one wanted landed in Florida.

People discovered that they owned lots in a ___________ or lots ___________.

October 24, 1929, is known as _____________.

A telegraph is a way of sending electric signals over _____________.

The telegraph was developed by _____________, starting in 1837.

October 29, _____________ was the single worst day in the US economy.

Those who suffered most were _____________ who got carried away.

Banks ____________ of the money deposited in them.

Banks demanded people pay back their loans, and if a person couldn't pay, then the bank seized ____________ this way.

Since no one was buying all those cars and radios and electric gadgets, the factories that made them ____________.

Rickety _____________ sprang up in the vacant lots to house the thousands of homeless.

_____________ were shacks built out of whatever people could find - tar paper, discarded signs, old tires, and scrap metal.

None of the shantytowns had electricity or running water and so _____________ spread.

Homeless settlements were called "_____________."

People called the _____________ people they slept under to keep themselves warm "Hoover blankets."

"Hoover leather" referred to the _____________ used to cover holes in people's shoes.

A "_____________" was a pocket turned inside out to show that the owner didn't have a penny.

People hunted rabbits, which were known as "Hoover _____________" - the poor man's bacon.

Lines formed at _____________ waiting for trucks with leftover food from restaurants.

One of the first soup kitchens in Chicago was run by _____________, the gangster.

In the 1930s, people started playing _____________ - a game where players got to pretend they were rich businessmen.

Families would also gather around the _____________ to listen to soap operas, comedy, and adventure stories.

Most hobos traveled by hitching rides on _____________.

During the ___________, farmers had thrived, because the government needed the farms to produce enough food to feed soldiers.

In ___________, people bid to buy something and the highest bidder gets the item.

____________ are people who study how business works.

Hoover used government money to feed starving ____________, but not starving ____________.

Back in 1924, Congress had voted to pay a bonus to everyone who had ____________.

Using bayonets, tear gas, and tanks, the ____________ drove the unarmed veterans out and burned their camp to the ground.

FDR repealed _____________.

FERA bought the crops that were rotting on the farms and set up the first national system of _____________.

One of Roosevelt's first acts was to close down all the _____________ and reopened only the stable ones.

In his first speech as president, Roosevelt told the American people, "the only thing we have to fear is _____________."

Eleanor Roosevelt worked for women's rights and _____________.

The NRA (National Recovery Administration) encouraged businesses to agree on a minimum wage, a limit on working hours, and an end to _____________.

The AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) paid farmers to limit how much food they produced, so it wouldn't go _____________.

The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) built dams on the Tennessee River, bringing _____________ and _____________ to an area which had lacked them.

The sweeping changes Roosevelt made in his first hundred days were called the _____________.

Roosevelt started giving informal "_____________" on the radio.

During the Depression, workers banded together into _____________ to give them more bargaining power with their employers.

A _____________ means the workers refused to do their jobs or let anyone else do them.

_______________ had begun in Europe in 1939.

The _______________ in Germany and their supporters in Italy and Japan were invading other countries.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed _______________ in Hawaii, and the United States was forced to declare war.

With the coming of war, unemployment _______________ as more and more men joined the army.

Popular posters showed "Rosie the _______________," a proud female construction worker.

World War II was a terrible time in the world's history, and brought new kinds of suffering unknown in the thirties, but economically, it put an end to the _______________.

A _______________ is a leader of a country who does exactly what he wants without having to get approval from anyone else.

_______________ made people think that the government is responsible for making sure all citizens have the basic things they need to survive - like food, education, and a roof over their heads.

During FDR's last days in 1944, he was elected president for a _______________ term.

FDR wanted to be sure that when World War II ended, that world would be a safer and more peaceful place, so he helped to create the _______________.