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1920s was known as the |
Jazz Age. (Roaring 20s) African Americans |
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Where did the Roaring 20s take place |
New York and Chicago |
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What was the fashion in the Roaring 20s |
Flappers |
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What is the period of African American Development of Culture called |
Harlem Renaissance |
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Jazz Musicians |
Duke Ellington, Louis Armonstrong, Fitzgerald |
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What theater/clubs were famous during the Roaring Twenties |
Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club |
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The decade of the 1920 was characterized by |
increased consumer borrowing and spending |
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The economic boom of the 1920s was primarily caused by |
the advent of advertising on radio |
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The major result of Prohibition in the US during the 1920s was |
an increase in organized crime |
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1920s was called The Roaring Twenties because |
it was a happy and fun time |
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A depression is |
a period of business slowing down with little money circulating and high unemployment |
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During 1929 |
The stock market crashed and this led to the great depression |
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The great depression lasted |
approximately 10 years |
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In the great depression |
millions lost their farms, jobs and homes |
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What is unemployment |
the number of people who can not find work. The number went up during the depression |
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What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP) |
it is the amount of goods bought and sold by a country. This number went down during the depression |
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What is the Dust Bowl? |
In the Southwest Great Plains there was a misuse of land and farmland. People had to leave their homes. Clouds of dust were created from dried up land. The dust bowl lasted about a decade |
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A good outcome of the dust bowl was |
We learned how to cultivate dry land |
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What states were effected by the Dust Bowl? |
North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Okalahoma, Texas |
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What is the New Deal |
A time of relief, reform and recovery |
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Relief |
Gave Americans jobs and money. Agencies were FERA and CCC and PWA and WPA. (Federal Emergency, Relief Administration and Civilian Conservation Corporation, Public Works Administration and Works Progress Administration) |
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Recovery |
Prime the pump - fix the economy. The agency were AAA and NRA. (Agriculture Adjustment Act and National Recovery Administration) |
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Reform |
Change so this (great depression) would not happen again. The agency were SEC and FDIC. (Securities and Exchange Commission and Fedral Deposit Insurance Corporation) |
