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7th SOL
roaring 20's and the Great Depression
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03/30/2005

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How did the American way of life improve in the 1920's?
Definition
improved transportation,communication changed, electrification, inventions
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Who invented the airplane?
Definition
The Wright brothers
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Who used the assembly line?
Definition
Henry Ford
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What came about because of prohibition?
Definition
speakeasies, bootleggers
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What were places called where people drank alcohol?
Definition
speakeasies
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What were the people called who smuggled illegal alcohol?
Definition
bootleggers
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What was the Great Migration North?
Definition
African Americans left the south for the north in search of employment opportunities.
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A period of Afican American artistic developement during the 1920's in New York City?
Definition
Harlem Renaissance
Term
Known for urban scenes and painting of the southwest?
Definition
Georgia O'Keefe
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Novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age?
Definition
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Novelist who portrayed the strength of migrant workers?
Definition
John Steinbeck
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Composers who wrote uniquely American music?
Definition
Aaron Copeland, George Gershwin
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Jazz composers and performers?
Definition
Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong
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Who was a blues singer?
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Bessie Smith
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Causes of the Great Depression
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overspeculated, collapse of banking system, high tariffs
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The Great Depression Impact on Americans
Definition
businesses failed, one fourth of workers without jobs, large number of homeless, farmer's income fell
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What are some features of the New Deal?
Definition
Social security, federal work programs, enviornmental programs, farm assistance, rights for labor
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What plan was developed to help the US recover from the Depression?
Definition
The New Deal
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What president developed the New Deal?
Definition
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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