1920's Great Depression
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- 4. a young women in the 1920’s known for her bold style and behavior
- 5. The Bonus Army was a group of WWI vets who marched to Washington DC in 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus they had been promised for their military service. Due to Great Depression.
- 8. refers to the 1920’s in the US when jazz music became extremely popular.
- 9. known as the scopes monkey trail, took place in 1925 in tennessee
- 13. A government program in the US that provides financial support to people when they retire, become disabled or lose a spouse.
- 14. Makeshift shantytowns built by homeless people during the great depression in the 1930’s
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- 1. Passed in 1935 is a law that protects the rights of workers to organize into unions and bargain collectively with their employers
- 2. secret bars or clubs operated during prohibition in the US when alcohol was illegal.
- 3. a severe environmental disaster int eh 1930’s primarily affecting the Great PLains of the US
- 5. refers to october 29th 1929 the day when the stock market crashed dramatically, marking the beginning of the Great Depression.
- 6. A series of programs and reforms created by president Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930’s to help the US recover from the Great Depression.
- 7. the practice of buying something, stocks or property, with the hope that its value will increase in the future.
- 10. two distinct periods in U.S. history characterized by wide spread radical leftist ideologies.
- 11. a limit on the amount of something that can be produced, sold, or imported
- 12. were people who illegally made or sold alcohol during prohibition in the US, which lasted from 1920 to 1933