Boom, Bust, Recovery

Automobile
• 1. This picture shows that this is the first automobile and that they are proud to have the automobile.
• It is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers that carries its own engine or motor. Automobiles became more popular in the 1920s.

Charles Lindbergh
• 2. In this picture of Charles Lindbergh, he is about to go to war and fight.
• Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor and explorer who gained fame during the 1920s.


Bessie Smith
• 3. This is a picture of Bessie Smith.
• She was an American Blues singer who became famous during the 1920s.

Babe Ruth
• 4. George Herman Ruth, known to the world as “Babe Ruth,” was the first sports superstar. He might have become baseball’s greatest left-handed pitcher. Instead, he moved to the outfield and became its greatest hitter.
• He had lived through the Red scare, and World War 1, and 2.


Duke Ellington
• 5. Was an American Composer, pianist, and big band leader who gained popularity during the Harlem Renaissance.


Zora Neale Hurston
• 6. She was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.

19th Amendment
• 7. In this picture of the 19th Amendment, it says women have the right to vote.
• “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State of account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”. Women gained suffrage in 1920.

Amelia Earhart
• 8. She was a famous female pilot from the 1920s.

Stock Market
• 1. In this picture from

the Stock Market it shows that a lot of people are buying stocks and

getting some profits off of them.
• In October 1929 the stock market crashed which sparked the Great Depression.

Dust Bowl
• 2. Was a bad dust storm that caused major damage to people and lands in the American prairie from 1930-­1936. This made it even worse for people during the Great Depression.


Black Tuesday
• 3. It was when the stock market crashed in October 1929.
• It lasted for quiet a while. Black Tuesday was an awful day for U.S. stocks which contributed to a world wide depression.

The Great Depression
• 4. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression before World War II.
• I chose Great Depression because it was a sad time period in the 1903s, and my great grandparents were in the great depression which really touched me, and they died because of it.

Shantytowns
5. It is a settlement (something illegal or unauthorized) of poor people who live in dwellings made from scrap materials: often plywood, corrugated metal, and sheets of plastic. Shantytowns popped up around the U.S. during the Great Depression because of all the homeless people.

Bread Lines
• 6. is a place where food is offered to the hungry for free or at reasonably low price. They were common during the Great Depression because people lacked food.
• I think that bread lines are very good because you have homeless people that are hungry and little kids that starve to death and I think its right to feed them

Bonus Army
• 7. The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers – 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who protested in Washington, D.C., in spring and summer of 1932. They were protesting to get the money they felt they deserved and needed because of the financial problems during the 1930s.


The Grapes of Wrath
• 8. It is a novel published in 1939. It was about a family that suffered during The Great Depression.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1. He was the 32 President of the United States who led the country out of the Great Depression by passing laws and creating programs. He also led the United States through most of World War ll.

New Deal
• 2. The New Deal was the name that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to his goals.

• There were 3goals.
• Relief to the unemployed and badly hunt farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and promoting Recovery of the economy during the Great Depression.


AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
• 3. Restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by playing farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops thereby giving farmers relative stability again.



Motion Pictures
• 4. Became very popular during and following the Great Depression because they gave Americans a break from their problems.


Social Security Act
• 5. U.S. Social Security is a social insurance program funded through dedicated payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA).
• It was created following the Great Depression to helps us with medical issues and insurance.




TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
• 6. It is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley.
• The Tennessee Valley was created because of the Great Depression.

NYA (National Youth Administration)
• 7. It is a New Deal agency in the United States.
• NYA helped the United States by letting women get jobs.

NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act)
• 8. The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), officially known as the Act of June 16, 1933.
• It is an American statue which authorized the President of the United States to regulate industry and permit cartels and monopolies in an attempt to stimulate economic recovery, and which established a national works program all which helped the country recover from the Great Depression.

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
• 9. It is a public work relief program for unemployed men, providing vocational training through the performance of useful work related to conservation and development of natural resources in the United States.
• It helped the United States by giving men the opportunity to work when they do not have a job and that give them training.

SEC (Federal Securities Act)
• 10. The 1933 Act has two basic objectives that helped the country’s economy recover:
• To require that investors receive significant (or “material”) information concerning securities being offered for public sale’ and
• To prohibit deceit, misrepresentations, and other fraud in the sale of securities to the public.