| A | B |
|---|
| $5.00 a day | plan for attracting assembly line workers for autos |
| Dust Bowl | eroded soil in mid-west/disaster for farmers |
| Black Tuesday/Black Thursday | major drop in stock market prices |
| Franklin Roosevelt | elected president/1932 - "New Deal" |
| Herbert Hoover | president during the Great Depression |
| Bessie Smith/Josephine Baker | Jazz singers and performer |
| Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong | Black Jazz musician/trumpet player & composer |
| Langston Hughes | Harlem Renaissance poet, writer |
| Marcus Garvey | Founded UNIA and "Back to Africa" movements |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Founded NAACP/wanted equal rights for Afr-Amer. |
| number (fraction) of banks collapsed from G.D. | one-fourth |
| buying on margin | paying a fraction or down payment on a stock purchase |
| causes of Great Depression | people used too much credit, factories outdated, farmers overproduce crops, stocks crash |
| distribution of wealth in the 1920's | there were the very wealthy, or the poor, not much in between |
| Herbert Hoover's role in the G.D. | didn't do much at first, took action later in Depression |
| Harlem Renaissance | art/music that expressed the African American voice |
| Garvey and Weldon | African Americans who believed in a separate black nation |
| first group of people to feel effects of Great Dep. | farmers affected first |
