A | B |
rapid rise in prices | inflation |
program that provides monthly payments to the elderly, disabled and unemployed | social security |
public forms of communication that reach large audiences | mass media |
area of the Great Plains affected by dust storms | Dust Bowl |
amendment that outlawed alcoholic beverages | Eighteenth Amendment |
workers stand in one place and put parts together as pieces go by on a belt | assembly line |
programs to help the country out of the Great Depression | New Deal |
musical form that was influenced by African America traditions | Jazz |
long period without rain | drought |
the condition of being out of work | unemployment |
the making of large quatities of goods that are exactly alike | mass production |
a worker who moves from place to place to harvest crops | migrant worker |
amendment that ended Prohibition | Twenty-First Amendment |
place where stocks are bought and sold | stock market |
period in which artists used writing, music and painting to share ideas about life for African Americans | Harlem Renaissance |
ban on the sale of alcohol | Prohibition |
worst period of economic hardship in United States history | Great Depression |
borrowed money | credit |
Birthplace of Jazz | New Orleans, Louisiana |