19th amendment
Gave women right to vote
I choose this one because it was a big problem in this time.
18th amendment
Gave women right to vote
I choose this one because it was a big problem in this time.
18th amendment
The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages.
Bootlegger
Illegal selling of alcoholic beverages
This one was a biggie because after alcohol was banned bootleggers came into play. This was a movement that made so much money.
NAACP
Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination
Louis Armstrong
Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz
I choose him because he was the best.
Marcus Garvey
Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African Redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam, to the Rastafari movement.
Picked him because he was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
Harlem Renaissance
The movement influenced literature, drama, music, visual art, and dance and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy)
This was one of my top ten because this was a movement that we live off today
Duke Ellington
Recognized during his life as one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music
I picked this guy because he is the man with the most skills
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age?
Picked because he was considered twentieth century's greatest writer
Babe Ruth
Was an American Major League baseball player from 1914 – 1935
Picked him because is one of the greatest sports heroes of American culture and has been named the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings
Bust
Herbert Hoover
Was the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933)
Picked him because he was a professional mining engineer and author.
Stock Market
Is a private or public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price
Because this was the major thing that effected the people during the depression
Black Tuesday
The day that the stock market crashed
Because it had a major impact on the community
Great Depression
Was a worldwide economic downturn
It was the largest and most important economic depression in the 20th century
Shantytowns
were settlements (sometimes illegal or unauthorized) of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials—often plywood, corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic
Because a large population of people lived in these
Hoovervilles
A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s
Because 15,000 people living there
Soup kitchen
Sometimes obtain food from a food bank for free or at a low price, because they are considered a charity
Because it was one or the only ways poor people could eat
Bread lines
A line of people waiting to receive food given by a charitable organization or public agency
Main way people who were not financially stabled to be able eat
Dust Bowl
Was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936
Because it made a lot of people loose money and become poor
The Grapes of Wrath
It was a novel written by John Steinbeck and also a American drama film directed by Academy Award Winner Best Director, John Ford
Because it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature
Was the thirty-first President of the United States (1929–1933)
Picked him because he was a professional mining engineer and author.
Stock Market
Is a private or public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price
Because this was the major thing that effected the people during the depression
Black Tuesday
The day that the stock market crashed
Because it had a major impact on the community
Great Depression
Was a worldwide economic downturn
It was the largest and most important economic depression in the 20th century
Shantytowns
were settlements (sometimes illegal or unauthorized) of impoverished people who live in improvised dwellings made from scrap materials—often plywood, corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic
Because a large population of people lived in these
Hoovervilles
A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s
Because 15,000 people living there
Soup kitchen
Sometimes obtain food from a food bank for free or at a low price, because they are considered a charity
Because it was one or the only ways poor people could eat
Bread lines
A line of people waiting to receive food given by a charitable organization or public agency
Main way people who were not financially stabled to be able eat
Dust Bowl
Was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936
Because it made a lot of people loose money and become poor
The Grapes of Wrath
It was a novel written by John Steinbeck and also a American drama film directed by Academy Award Winner Best Director, John Ford
Because it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature
Recovery
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Was the 32nd President of the United States.
Picked him because He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war
Eleanor Roosevelt
She supported the New Deal policies of her husband F.D.R
Because she was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945
New Deal
Was the 32nd President of the United States.
Picked him because He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war
Eleanor Roosevelt
She supported the New Deal policies of her husband F.D.R
Because she was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945
New Deal
a sequence of central economic planning and economic stimulus programs he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving aid to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the economy during The Great Depression.
Because it help a lot during the recovery years of America
FDIC (Glass-Steagall Act)
In the United States and included banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation
Because it collapse of a large portion of the American commercial banking system in early 1933.
AAA (Agricultural Adjustm
ent Act)
Restricted production during the New Deal by paying farmers to reduce crop area
Because 220,000 pregnant cows were slaughtered in the AAA's effort to raise prices
TVA
Is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933
Because it provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.
Social Security Act
In the United States currently refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program
Because we this is very important in life today
Motion Pictures
Restricted production during the New Deal by paying farmers to reduce crop area
Because 220,000 pregnant cows were slaughtered in the AAA's effort to raise prices
TVA
Is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933
Because it provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.
Social Security Act
In the United States currently refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program
Because we this is very important in life today
Motion Pictures
Films that are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects
Because this number one entertainment in the U.S
CCC
Was a public work relief program for unemployed men, focused on natural resource conservation from 1933 to 1942.
Because it was to aid relief of high unemployment stemming from the Great Depression
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