US Hist U5 Part 2

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This deck covers key events, figures, and concepts from the Great Depression and the 1920s in the United States, including significant cultural, political, and economic developments.

During the Great Depression unemployment averaged ___.

15%
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Definition
During the Great Depression unemployment averaged ___.
15%
What was the significance of The Jazz Singer?
It was the first feature-length movie with a talking sound track.
The ___ Act separated commercial banks and investment banks.
Glass-Steagall
Many talented Black writers, poets, and artists contributed to the ___.
Harlem Renaissance
The _ Amendment, ratified in 1920, secured suffrage rights for women.
Nineteenth
The 1930s were the Golden Age of _.
Radio

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TermDefinition
During the Great Depression unemployment averaged ___.
15%
What was the significance of The Jazz Singer?
It was the first feature-length movie with a talking sound track.
The ___ Act separated commercial banks and investment banks.
Glass-Steagall
Many talented Black writers, poets, and artists contributed to the ___.
Harlem Renaissance
The _ Amendment, ratified in 1920, secured suffrage rights for women.
Nineteenth
The 1930s were the Golden Age of _.
Radio
The ___ stock market crash took place on October 29, 1929.
Black Tuesday
___ did not share in the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties.
Farmers
The __ Dam was built under the authorization of President Hoover.
Boulder
The Hawley-Smoot bill contributed to the Great Depression by significantly reducing trade.
Tariff
The Great Depression was ___.
international in scope
Former Secretary of Commerce and Republican ___ won the 1928 Presidential election.
Herbert Hoover
___ is the composer of 'God Bless America'.
Irving Berlin
What year did the Stock Market Crash occur?
1929
By keeping rates high, the Federal Reserve contributed to the Great Depression.
interest
Sinclair Lewis was the First American to win a Nobel Prize for __.
literature
Susan B. Anthony
led efforts to gain the right for women to vote
Charles Lindbergh
first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
John Scopes
teacher who faced trial for teaching evolution in a public classroom
Marcus Garvey
founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
___ wrote lyrics for 'The Black National Anthem'.
James Weldon Johnson
'I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a ___ for the American people.'
new deal
The Grapes of Wrath by ___ tells the tale of an Oklahoma family relocating to California as a result of drought.
John Steinbeck
The first New Deal was comprised of 15 acts passed during the ___.
Hundred Days
The Great Plains are a(n) _ plain with little surface water and few trees.
arid