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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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