1930's Events

Question 1

The Great Depression

Answer 1

The severe world-wide economic disintegration symbolized in the United States by the stock market crash on “Black Thursday” October 24th, 1929.

Question 2

Jim Crow

Answer 2

Series of laws that segregated black and white people. Ex, Segregated schools, water fountains, restrooms, and “White Only” areas in business.

Question 3

African American Ministers’ Protest of War Memorial (Raleigh,North Carolina 1932)

Answer 3

Basically there was a new memorial auditorium that opened up and the black people got a tiny balcony section to stand on while the white people got more space.

Question 4

The Dust Bowl

Answer 4

The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.

Question 5

The New Deal Program

Answer 5

A series of programs enacted by FDR to combat the great depression through things like creating more jobs in hopes to ensure it doesn’t happen again.(Spoiler alert:It happens again and it’s called the great recession dun dun dun)

Question 6

Prohibition Ends

Answer 6

Prohibition was the ban on alcohol and so the ban on alcohol ended.

Question 7

NAACP Anti-Lynching Campaign (1930’s)

Answer 7

A bill called the anti-lynching bill (aka the dyer bill) was passed by senator dyer but was overturned by another senator the senator of the naacp (walter white) pushed for the campaign and the first day recorded without a lynching was in 1954. Lynching is the public killing of an individual who has not receive any of the due process.

Question 8

Veterans’s Protest in Washington

Answer 8

World war I veterans protested in front of white house to demand an early payment / bonus during the great depression, the government refused and the president sent the military to remove them. They used tear gas.