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The 1920s and the Great Depression

From the Roaring Twenties through the stock market crash, hard times and the New Deal.

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  • Roaring TwentiesTerm or event
    The lively 1920s, a time of new products, jazz and rising prosperity for many
  • Jazz AgeTerm or event
    Nickname for the 1920s, when jazz music became popular
  • Harlem RenaissanceTerm or event
    1920s flowering of Black art, music and writing centered in Harlem, New York
  • Langston HughesTerm or event
    Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Louis ArmstrongTerm or event
    Jazz trumpeter and singer who became a star in the 1920s
  • Duke EllingtonTerm or event
    Bandleader and composer who played at Harlem's Cotton Club
  • ProhibitionTerm or event
    Ban on making and selling alcohol, from 1920 to 1933
  • 18th AmendmentTerm or event
    Started Prohibition
  • 21st AmendmentTerm or event
    Ended Prohibition in 1933
  • SpeakeasyTerm or event
    Secret place that sold alcohol during Prohibition
  • FlapperTerm or event
    Young woman of the 1920s known for short hair and modern fashion
  • Charles LindberghTerm or event
    Made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic, in 1927
  • Model TTerm or event
    Henry Ford's affordable car, first sold in 1908
  • Assembly lineTerm or event
    Factory method where a product moves past workers, each doing one job
  • Henry FordTerm or event
    Car maker who made automobiles cheap enough for many families
  • Mass productionTerm or event
    Making large amounts of goods quickly using standard parts
  • RadioTerm or event
    New in the 1920s; families gathered to hear music, news and ball games
  • Babe RuthTerm or event
    Baseball star who hit 60 home runs in 1927
  • Installment planTerm or event
    Buying now and paying in small payments over time
  • Red Scare (1919-20)Term or event
    Fear of communists and radicals after World War I
  • Immigration quotasTerm or event
    1920s laws limiting how many people could come from each country
  • Scopes Trial (1925)Term or event
    Tennessee trial over teaching evolution in public schools
  • Calvin CoolidgeTerm or event
    President from 1923 to 1929, known for supporting business
  • Herbert HooverTerm or event
    President when the Great Depression began
  • Stock marketTerm or event
    Place where shares in companies are bought and sold
  • Buying on marginTerm or event
    Buying stocks with borrowed money
  • Stock market crash (1929)Term or event
    Stock prices fell sharply in October 1929, starting the Great Depression
  • Black TuesdayTerm or event
    October 29, 1929, one of the worst days of the crash
  • Great DepressionTerm or event
    Severe economic slump in the 1930s with many job losses
  • UnemploymentTerm or event
    When people who want jobs cannot find them
  • Bank runTerm or event
    When many people try to withdraw money at once, and banks fail
  • HoovervillesTerm or event
    Camps of shacks for homeless people during the Depression
  • Bread lineTerm or event
    Line of hungry people waiting for free food
  • Soup kitchenTerm or event
    Place serving free meals to people in need
  • Dust BowlTerm or event
    1930s drought and dust storms across the southern Plains
  • Black Sunday (1935)Term or event
    April 14, a giant dust storm on the Plains
  • OkiesTerm or event
    Nickname for people who left Oklahoma and nearby states for California
  • The Grapes of WrathTerm or event
    John Steinbeck's novel about a family leaving the Dust Bowl
  • Dorothea LangeTerm or event
    Photographer whose pictures such as 'Migrant Mother' showed Depression hardship
  • Bonus Army (1932)Term or event
    Veterans who marched to Washington asking for early payment of a bonus
  • Smoot-Hawley TariffTerm or event
    1930 law raising taxes on imported goods, which hurt world trade
  • Franklin D. RooseveltTerm or event
    Elected in 1932; promised a New Deal
  • New DealTerm or event
    Roosevelt's programs for relief, recovery and reform
  • Fireside chatsTerm or event
    Roosevelt's radio talks explaining his plans in a calm voice
  • First hundred daysTerm or event
    Spring 1933, when Congress passed many New Deal laws quickly
  • Bank holiday (1933)Term or event
    Roosevelt closed banks briefly to check which were safe
  • FDICTerm or event
    Created in 1933 to insure bank deposits
  • Civilian Conservation CorpsTerm or event
    Gave young men jobs planting trees and building parks
  • Works Progress AdministrationTerm or event
    Gave jobs building roads, schools and public art
  • Tennessee Valley AuthorityTerm or event
    Built dams and brought electricity to the Tennessee River region
  • Social Security Act (1935)Term or event
    Created pensions for older Americans and help for the unemployed
  • SECTerm or event
    Securities and Exchange Commission, which oversees stock markets, formed in 1934
  • Wagner Act (1935)Term or event
    Protected workers' right to form unions
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)Term or event
    Set a minimum wage and a maximum workweek and limited child labor
  • Eleanor RooseveltTerm or event
    First lady who spoke out for the poor and for civil rights
  • Mary McLeod BethuneTerm or event
    Educator who advised FDR and led efforts on Black youth issues
  • Frances PerkinsTerm or event
    First woman in a US cabinet, Secretary of Labor under FDR
  • Huey LongTerm or event
    Louisiana senator who proposed the Share Our Wealth plan
  • Court-packing plan (1937)Term or event
    Roosevelt's failed plan to add more Supreme Court justices
  • Hindenburg disaster (1937)Term or event
    German airship burst into flames in New Jersey
  • Amelia EarhartTerm or event
    Pilot who flew solo across the Atlantic in 1932 and vanished in 1937
  • Jesse OwensTerm or event
    Track star who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
  • Joe LouisTerm or event
    Heavyweight boxing champion who became a national hero
  • Radio dramasTerm or event
    Shows like The Shadow and Fibber McGee entertained families
  • Gone with the WindTerm or event
    1939 film that won many Academy Awards
  • The Wizard of OzTerm or event
    Film released in 1939
  • Monopoly gameTerm or event
    Board game that became popular during the Depression
  • Hoover DamTerm or event
    Huge dam on the Colorado River finished in 1936
  • Golden Gate BridgeTerm or event
    San Francisco bridge opened in 1937
  • Empire State BuildingTerm or event
    New York skyscraper opened in 1931, then the world's tallest
  • RecessionTerm or event
    A period of falling business activity and rising unemployment
  • DeflationTerm or event
    A general fall in prices
  • Relief, recovery, reformTerm or event
    The three Rs: the main goals of the New Deal
  • Mexican repatriationTerm or event
    In the 1930s many Mexican Americans were pressured or forced to leave the US
  • End of the DepressionTerm or event
    Defense spending for World War II finally brought full employment

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