1920s Culture & Conflict
Prohibition & Immigration
Causes of the Great Depression
New Deal
Dust Bowl
100
This famous trial showed the conflict between science and religion in the 1920s.
What is the Scopes Trial?
100
This law banned the production and sale of alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Extra 100: What happened when alcohol was banned?
100
Excessive use of this system allowed Americans to buy goods without paying immediately.
What is credit (installment buying)?
100
This President created programs to fight the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
This enviornmental disaster forced many families tto leave their homes.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
This cultural movement celebrated African American identity in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
This illegal activity involved making and selling alcohol during Prohibition.
What is bootlegging?
200
These institutions failed, causing many Americans to lose their savings.
What are banks (bank failures)?
200
What is this image talking about?
What is court-packing? (appointing new justices)
200
This was a common response by farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. Where did they migrate to?
What is migrating West to California?
300
This Harlem Renaissance poet often had themes of racial pride throughout his work.
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
According to critics, this was a major reason Prohibition failed.
What is that many Americans refused to stop drinking alcohol?
Bonus 100: Who benefited from this?
300
This event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
Extra 100: What is the specific name of this event?
300
This New Deal program provided financial support to elderly Americans and the unemployed.
What is the Social Security Act?
300
This region experienced severe drought and dust storms in the 1930s.
What is the Great Plains?
400
This was the main issue debated during the Scopes Trial.
What is the teaching of evolution in schools?
400
This policy limited the number of immigrants entering the U.S.
What are immigration quotas?
400
This economic issue involved producing more goods than people could buy.
What is overproduction?
400
This New Deal program helped restore public confidence by protecting people's bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
Extra 100-What does the FDIC stand for?
400
This belief was PResident Hoover's response to the Great Depression.
What is Laissez faire? (limited government intervention)
500
The clash between to certain groups of people, one supported change while the other supported religion and tradition.
What is Modernists vs. Fundamentalists
500
This belief led to support for stricter immigration laws in the 1920s.
What is nativism?
500
This chain reaction occured when people rushed to withdraw their money, causing banks to collapse during the Great Depression.
What is a bank run?
500
This controversy arose when FDR tried to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
What is the Court-Packing plan?
500
This constitutional principle was threatened by FDR's attempt to influence the Supreme Court.
What is checks and balances?