The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression

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The Roaring Twenties
Prohibition http://www.1920-30.com/prohibition/
1. What were the intended goals for Prohibition?
Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems,
lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and
hygiene in America.

2. What were the actual results of Prohibition?

3. Which amendment began Prohibition? Which amendment
repealed it?
Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into
effect.
the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed Amendment XVIII

4. Who was Al Capone?

Al Capone, one of the most infamous bootleggers

Jazz http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm
5. How were the roaring twenties a time of unprecedented
prosperity?
The decade following World War I

6. Name five bands from the 1920s.

Babe Egan's Hollywood Red Heads
Twelve Vampires
Parisian Red Heads

Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
Alphonso Trent

7. What two inventions helped jazz reach even remote locations

of the U.S.?
the radio and phonograph

8. Did everyone enjoy jazz music? How do you know?

Fashion http://www.1920-30.com/fashion/
9. Describe fashion in the 1920s.
10. What was the bob?
11. Who were the flappers?
12. How did the roaring twenties redefine womanhood?
Slang of the 1920s
http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm
13. Use the slang terms to write one sentence about Prohibition.
14. Use the slang terms to write one sentence about the music
of the 1920s.
15. Use the slang terms to write one sentence about the fashion
of the 1920s.

Great Depression
The Stock Market
http://www.thegreatdepressioncauses.com/stockmarket.html
1. What and when was "Black Tuesday"?
2. Over the next two days, how much value did the stock market
lose?

3. How long did it take for the stock market to recover?

Life During the Great Depression
http://www.thegreatdepressioncauses.com/unemploym
ent.html
4. What was the unemployment rate in 1933?
5. How many people were unemployed in 1933?
6. What were shantytowns?
7. Why were shantytowns also called Hoovervilles?
The Dust Bowl
http://www.thegreatdepressioncauses.com/dustbowl.html
8. What conditions led to the Dust Bowl?
9. What was Black Sunday and when did it occur?
10. What did many of the farmers do during the Dust Bowl?
The New Deal
http://www.thegreatdepressioncauses.com/fdr-newdeal.html
11. What was FDRs First Hundred Days?
12. Name three goals of the New Deal.
13. What ended the Great Depression and how?
Depression Facts & Dates
http://www.thegreatdepressioncauses.com/fdr-newdeal.html
14. Why was Herbert Hoover blamed for the Great Depression?
15. What is the FDIC and what is its purpose?