Review Questions

The Roaring Twenties

The Great Depression

The Dust Bowl

1. What led to a boom in the economy in the 1920s?

• Consumer goods, advertisements, and installment buying

2. How did Henry Ford change the automobile industry?

• He used a moving assembly line to mass produce cars.

3. What other industries grew in the 1920s?

• The rubber, oil, steel, and electric power industries.

4. Who was Charles Lindbergh?

• He was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone in an air plane.

5. What new forms of entertainment were popular in the 1920s?

• People were listening to the radio, playing sports, and going to the movies.

6. What was the Harlem Renaissance?

• It was a time of great interest and activity in the arts among African American writers, musicians, and artists.

7. What caused the stock market crash of 1929?

• More investors sold stocks than bought them, and prices fell sharply.

8. What happened during the Great Depression?

• Businesses and banks failed, people lost jobs and became hungry and homeless.

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9. What was Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression?

• The New Deal

10. What was President Roosevelt’s Alphabet Soup?

• Programs created during the New Deal to put people to work

• The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)• Created jobs planting trees and protecting

national parks

• The WPA (Works Progress Administration)• Created jobs building roads, airports, and public buildings

• The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)• Built dams and locks and the Tennessee River

11. Why did many farmers loose their farms?

• They could not repay the bank loans because of failing crops

• See video clip

12. Where was the Dust Bowl located, and what was it?

It was in the Midwestern part of the United States including the panhandle of Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Missouri. It consisted of areas suffering with a 5 year drought and severe dust storms.

13. How did the farmers know when a dust storm was coming?

• They would see thousands of birds and rabbits racing to avoid the storm.

14. How did farmers try to protect their animals and themselves from the dust storms?

• They put their farm animals into the barns, stayed in their cabins or storm cellars, and stuffed the cracks around doors and windows with tape or wet towels, and slept with wet washcloths or sponges over their faces.

15. Why did many people stay in the Dust Bowl under the terrible conditions? Where did the ones who left go?

• People had everything they owned tied up in their farms and had no choice. They also didn’t expect it to last so long.

• The ones who left fled west to California in hopes of finding work. Most only found more hardship and poverty.