Roaring 20s
This amendment to the Constitution banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This president was in office when the Great Depression began.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The New Deal focused on the “Three Rs”: relief, recovery, and this third goal.
What is reform?
This system divides the U.S. government into three branches to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
What is checks and balances?
This economic system allowed Americans in the 1920s to buy products and pay for them over time.
What is buying on credit/installment buying?
These makeshift communities of shacks were built by homeless Americans during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
This New Deal program gave jobs to young men working on environmental conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the idea of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This trial highlighted the conflict between traditional religious beliefs and modern science in the 1920s.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This drought-stricken region of the Great Plains experienced severe dust storms during the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This New Deal program created old-age pensions and unemployment insurance that still exist today.
What is Social Security?
This muckraker exposed corruption in big businesses like Standard Oil during the Progressive Era.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This president promoted pro-business policies and was associated with the phrase “The business of America is business.”
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
In 1932, this group of World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C. to demand early payment of promised bonuses, but were forcibly removed by the U.S. Army.
What is the Bonus Army (Bonus March)?
This New Deal program provided electricity and economic development to poor rural areas in the South.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This Union victory in July 1863 is often considered the turning point of the Civil War because it ended Robert E. Lee’s invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This jazz pianist and bandleader helped define the sound of the Harlem Renaissance with his sophisticated compositions and long-running orchestra at the Cotton Club.
Who is Duke Ellington?
This photographer documented the human impact of the Great Depression for the Farm Security Administration, including the iconic image known as “Migrant Mother.”
Who is Dorothea Lange
Although the New Deal provided relief to many Americans, this major economic problem was not fully solved until World War II increased industrial production.
What is unemployment?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review in 1803.
What is Marbury v. Madison?