The Great Depression-Toman Reaves
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- 1. Which color rose represented people opposed or against women having the right to vote
- 4. The American economy was helped in the 1920s because of Henry Ford's mass production of this.
- 5. Which amendment was seen as unpopular and a huge failure and was known as Prohibition.
- 7. On 10/29/1929, the stock market crashed, which caused the beginning of the Great Depression and that day is known as this.
- 9. This TN representative surprised everyone with a change in his vote for the 19th Amendment, thereby giving women across the country the right to vote.
- 10. After the passing of the 19th Amendment there was a change in the attitude in the 1920s a decade which is known as this
- 11. A militant African American writer from the Harlem Renaissance.
- 12. The TVA (TN Valley Authority) put people to work building bridges, roads, and these which created electricity,
- 15. This woman was President of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League and the Vice President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
- 17. What was the name of the federal government's program that created roads, cabins, and stonewalls in national and state parks across TN during the 1930's.
- 18. Years of this increased the destruction of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and caused many farmers on the Great Plains to have to give up and quit farming and move west to CA.
- 21. This is the name of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's weekly talks to the American people.
- 22. Over 9,000 of these failed during the Great Depression and only the strong ones could reopen after being audited.
- 23. Nashville became home to country music because of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company there that founded this radio station.
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- 2. This was a very long drought for farmers on the Great Plains, which only made the Great Depression even worse.
- 3. The Great Depression caused many people to lose their homes when they couldn't afford to pay back their home loans, so some people lived in these.
- 6. The growth of African American culture (literature and music) during the 1920s.
- 8. Another word for buyer
- 13. Where middle class Americans lined up to get free food during the Great Depression
- 14. What rate percentage was 25% during the Great Depression.
- 16. This man is considered one of the most popular jazz artists of thee 1920s.
- 19. This state became the "Perfect 36" when its General Assembly ratified the 19th Amendment giving women across the nation the right to vote.
- 20. the new form of music made popular in the 1920s by Duke Ellington and more
- 21. This man became President in 1933 with a plan to help Americans.