100 200 300 400 500 1920s life and culture great depression hooverfdr vocabulary misc. final...
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1920s Life and
Culture
Great Depression
Hoover FDR Vocabulary Misc.
Final Question
Bootlegger
A 100
Someone who sold illegal alcohol during Prohibition
A 100
The name given to the massive growth and
popularity of African American culture during the
20s.
A 200
Harlem Renaissance
A 200
How did consumer practices change in the 1920s
A 300
Credit and installment plans
A 300
What was controversial about the palmer raids
A 400
No sound evidence yet arrested and deported many people for being involved in radical communist
movements
A 400
Why did the popularity of fundamentalist religions
increase in the 1920s?
A 500
Prohibition – Hollywood sermons – fear of change
A 500
How were racial tensions in the US represented in the
Great Depression?
B 100
-Minority races lived in poverty before, the
depression was only official when it hit white America
B 100
How did the Great Depression affect family life?
B 200
-Homelessness, migrant lifestyle, divorces and
domestic violence
B 200
What was the unemployment level in the US in 1932?
B 300
23%
B 300
Why might someone argue that the Great Depression was natural
and unavoidable?
B 400
B 400
In good time businesses increase production, and employment build
a surplus and are then forced to lay off workers. When the surplus
is gone they will hire more people.
Give an example of a cause of the Great Depression that was the fault of
-Individuals
-Banks
-Government
-Business
B 500
Variety
B 500
What is a Hooverville?
C 100
Name given to the shantytowns built by
homeless folks in the Great Depression
C 100
Define Rugged Individualism
C 200
• Success comes from individual effort
C 200
Give 1 example of how Hoover attempted to
stimulate the American Economy. Was it successful?
C 300
• Encouraged business owners to keep up pre Depression levels of production and employment
• Cheerful public statements• Funding public works projects• Had little impact
C 300
Give 1 example of how Hoover attempted to cope with the farm crisis.
Was it successful?
C 400
Federal Farm Board gave loans and set up cooperatives to try and reduce expenses and get higher crop prices
Not successful
C 400
Give 1 example of how Hoover attempted to stabilize financial institutions. Was it
successful?
C 500
$2 billion used to stabilize banks and large corporations
Large corporations were helped but small businesses
continued to fail, didn’t really make a dent.
C 500
How did FDR’s approach to the Great Depression differ
from Hoover’s?
D 100
FDR believed in direct relief
D 100
Which two of FDR’s policies were found unconstitutional?
D 200
National Recovery AdministrationNational Industrial Recovery Act
D 200
Which 3 of FDR’s programs worked to directly create jobs?
D 300
Civilian Conservation CorpsCivil Works Administration
Public Works Administration
D 300
How was the FDIC supposed to restore
America’s faith in the banks?
D 400
Their deposits were insured
D 400
Describe an action of FDR that tried to solve the
following issues of the Great Depression
1.Lower standard of living2.Natural disasters3.Lack in aid4.Racial tension5.Poor individual choices6.Decrease in family life
D 500
D 500
Various
Define Bolshevik
E 100
A communist
E 100
Prohibition
E 200
Banned sale, manufacture andTransportation of alcohol 1920-1933
E 200
Scopes Trial
E 300
Would evolution be taught in public schools
E 300
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
E 400
High tariff on imported goods supposed to increase sales of American goods at home but destroyed foreign markets’ abilities to buy US goods
E 400
Dust Bowl
E 500
Man made agricultural disaster
E 500
Gross National Product
F 100
Total value of goods made in the US in one fiscal year
F 100
How is a bull market different from a bear
market?
F 200
Bull Market is where prices rise a Bear is where they drop
F 200
Define Social Security
What is the current problem with SS in the US?
F 300
Pension to retired US workers
Fewer young people putting in to the system
than older people withdrawing
F 300
How did the type of liquor consumed by Americans change
in the early 1900s?
F 400
More alcohol in it (beer to whiskey)
F 400
What is the concern with FDR’s approach to fixing the economy? What is the
concern with using Hoover’s approach?
F 500
FDR – how do you make sure the economy is actually recovering (can stand on its own) and not just relying on government aid.
Hoover – how can individuals change their circumstances when the problems and challenges that face them are so large.
F 500
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