1930s Pop (Culture) Quiz

1930s Pop (Culture) QuizQuestion 1In one or two paragraphs each discuss the major and minor industries of your county and explain how the climate, natural regions and natural resources have influenced their development.Question 2Name one country other than the United States that produces much wheat, cattle, cotton, coal, sugar, coffee, gold, oranges.Question 3 What causes rain? Why do deserts have little rain?Question 5Name five cities of West Virginia with reasons for location and growth of each.Question 6Trace a car load of coal from a West Virginia coalfield to a sea port or a lake port.Question 7Name and locate the principal health resorts in the United States. In West Virginia.Question 8What country of the world is most densely settled? Which one has sparsest population? What are the reasons for this?Question 9Why is New England losing many of her textile industries?Question 10What influence has the Nile River on Egypt? The Kongo basin is smaller than the Amazon? Why is it important?What do these questions tell you about the 1930s?Education in the 1930sThe goals and ideals of education in the 1930s were in sharp conflict with the economic bottom lineNumber of Teachers and their salaries are decreasedThousands of Children are forced to leave school to help their families financially.African Americans attended segregated schools.Progressive Education Movement is unable to make significant reform.

Slang in the 1930sSlangis a vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage: it is the non-standard use of words and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language.Development of SlangMuchslangfrom the era comes out as a response to the Great Depression: PresidentHerbertHooverOkiesfleeing the Dust BowlWhen Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1932, Americans talked of aNew Dealand its slew of programs, known by their initials.The Increase in number of people owning cars and being able to drive.New Radio ProgramsYouth Slang in the 1930sPopular youth culture was in many ways undaunted by the nation's troubles.The language of the young men who worked behind soda fountains--important gathering places for the youngYoung men who still had jobs took theirhot patootiesout todrag a hoofa popular swing clubs. Jazz in the thirties was hotter than everAfrican American Slang in the 1930sAfrican-American vernacular had an immense impact on the slang of the 1930s.Jazzmusicians especially defined the popular youth slang of the Depression

Using the words given on the word search what saying can you come up with?