Roaring 20's/The Great Depression

What amendment brought in prohibition?

18th amendment

Amendment that ratified the 18th amendment

21st amendment

Act passed in 1926 provided federal funds to build airports

Air Commerce Act

What is an installment plan?

Another name for a payment plan, buy now pay later.

Well known name in sports during the 20's

Babe Ruth

What were the nine main causes of The Great Depression?

Banking, Farming, Tariffs, Speculations, Uneven Prosperity, Overproduction, Buying on credit, Labor, and Business.

Well known name in the movie industry during the 20's

Charlie Chaplin

People could borrow the money to get the goods they wanted/needed and had to repay that amount and then usually some additional money.

Consumer Credit

Influenced by African Americans during this time

Harlem Renaissance

Due to the increase in immigration what reemerged?

KKK

Well known name in the jazz industry

Louis Armstrong

What is a Bread Line?

People who could not find a job to make money during the Great Depression

The attempt to stop the sale and consumption of alcohol

Prohibition

What were Shantytown/Hoovervilles?

Shacks for the homeless during the Great Depression. Hoovervilles were named after President Herbert Hoover.

During this time how did woman change how they dressed and acted?

Shorter sleeved dresses and they smoked and drank.

Due to the invention of the assembly line the cost of this became cheaper while the rate of production increased.

The Automobile

This was one of the most famous strikes of 1919. This is where 75% of the police force in Boston walked off the job.

The Boston Police Strike

This was when some 35,000 shipyard workers walked off the job demanding higher wages and shorter hours.

The Seattle General Strike

This is when an estimated 350,000 steelworkers went on strike for higher pay, shorter hours, and recognition of their union.

The Steel Strike

What is The Great Depression?

The worst economic downfall in US history that took place from 1929 to 1939.

What was the Dust Bowl?

Was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.

Influenced by european influences

art and literature

Earned less than a third of what people in bigger cities earned

farmers

Woman were known as this during the 1920's

flappers

The soldiers returned home thinking they would have a

hero's welcome

During this time there was an increase in

immigration

The rate of increased prices during a given period of time was

inflation

Farmers went into debt buying this on credit?

land, new machinery, new seeds, new fertilizers

Signs of false prosperity

oscar depriest?

The rich were getting...the poor were getting...

richer, poorer

Secret locations to drink

speakeasies

Major event that took place in 1929

stock market crash

During this time the increase of memberships in this grew rapidly

unions

During this time woman gained the right to

vote

Examples of consumer products that became available at this time include

washing machine, refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, electric iron, household cleaning supplies