Boom
18th Amendment because there were many mobs formed, and bootlegging because of this. This is a picture of men pouring alcohol into the sewage.
NAACP was an organization that put colored people out there for the good things that they achieved. This started in the early 1900’s.
Babe Ruth was very well known baseball player during this period. He is also known for his home run hitting.
So much bootlegging going on in this period. This was a bootlegging car chase and crash that happened in 1924.
Automobile was used to illegally transport alcohol during the Boom period. These are high school girls working on an automobile.
The Harlem Renaissance was written and artistic creativity by African-Americans that occurred after World War I and lasted until the middle of the 1930s Depression during this period.
Prohibition had to do with the 18th Amendment during which the manufacture, sales and transportation of alcoholic beverages were legally prohibited. People thought that too much drinking led to crimes.
Scopes Trial was an argument that was going on July 10, 1925, over a evolution and the role of science and also with religion in public schools in the U.S.A
Red Scare has been retroactively applied to two distinct periods of strong anti-Communism in United States history: first from 1917 to 1920, and second from the late 1940s through the late 1950s.
19th Amendment this was a amendment that give the women the right to vote. It was adopted in 1920 to the U.S. constitution.
Bust
Black Tuesday was also known as The Wall Street Crash of 1929. This was one of the most devastating stock market crashes in American History. This is a crowd gathering on Wall Street after the crash.
Dust Bowl was a period of dust storms started by bad soil, and farming without crop rotation. The storms started near Kansas and reached as far as New York. This was also called the dirty thirties.
Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting with the stock market crash of 1929. This was the most economic depression during the Bust period
Hooverville is a shantytown built by homeless men during the Bust period. Hooverville was named after Herbert Hoover. This is a picture of Hooverville.
The Stock Market is a private or public market where you trade company stock. One of the worst crashes of this time was, the stock market crash of 1929.
Herbert Hoover was the President during the beginning of the Bust period. He witnessed the stock market crash.
Bread Line is when needy people stood out in the cold to receive free food. There was a lot of this going on during this period because people became poor after the crash.
Shantytowns are little towns that many poor people lived in during the depression. This is a picture of one of the Shantytowns.
Speculation is a harvest is too small to satisfy consumption at its normal rate, speculators come in, hoping to profit from the scarcity by buying. Their purchases raise the price, thereby checking consumption so that the smaller supply will last longer.
In the case of a price control, a price support is the minimum legal price a seller may charge, typically placed above equilibrium. It is the support of certain price levels at or above market values by the government.
Recovery
New Deal was a series of economic programs President Roosevelt initiated between 1933 and 1936 to help the United States recover from the Great Depression.
The Social Security Act an attempt to limit as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, and unemployment. This is President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act.
WPA was the Biggest New Deal agency. It employed millions of people, especially rural and western mountain populations. It allowed people to have jobs during The Great Depression.
Eleanor Roosevelt was the thirty-second president (Franklin D. Roosevelt)’s wife. She was the first lady during this period.
The NYA was a program made with the New Deal Agency. It served 327,000 high school and college youth, who were paid from $6 to $40 a month for "work study" projects at their schools.
Tennessee Valley Authority provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer, manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley.
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) this was a work relief program for young men from homeless families. This was designed to help young men get money during the recovery period.
FDIC short for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was created to make sure your money was safe in banks. This was made to recover Americans’ trust in the banking system.
NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act Was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. It authorized the President to regulate banks, and stimulate the United States economy to recover from the Great Depression. To do this it established the National Recovery Administration.
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative stability again.
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