The Roaring 20s
The prohibition of alcohol amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The amendment that repealed prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The President in office when the Great Depression started.
What is Herbert Hoover?
President who offered the "New Deal."
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
Created a national system of pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to mothers with children.
What is the Social Security Act?
Prizing white Americans with older family trees over more recent immigrants and rejecting outside influences in favor of their own local customs
What is nativism?
Women who worked outside of the home and wanted to enjoy life.
What is a Flapper?
Forced many to leave the plains, leaving everything behind.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Insured bank deposits against bank failure, up to a certain level.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Program (FDIC)?
Gave financial aid to states to support local relief programs for the destitute.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?
An artistic cultural shift that became popular in speakeasies and illegal night clubs due to new recording technology.
What is Jazz?
Lobbied for anti-evolution bills through the legislatures and in courts.
What are fundamentalists?
The event that brought on the Great Depression and marked the end of the prosperity of the 1920s.
What is the stock market crash of 1929.
Allowed federal regulation of stock trading in public corporations.
What is the Securities and Exchange Act?
Put unemployed, unskilled young men to work on rural and park improvements.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The "Noble Experiment."
Scopes Monkey Trial
What is the court case in which fundamentalists were challenging the teaching of evolution in schools?
A measure of the average change over time in the prices paid for a market basket of goods and services.
What is the Consumer Price Index?
Restructured and centralized the Federal Reserve Bank.
What is the Banking Act?
The responsibility of the National Park Service (1935).
What is the Historic Sites Act?
Introduced Americans to new and unfamiliar cultural experiences from the comfort of their living room.
What is the radio?
A shift in the American economy that followed the advent of automobiles, telephone, radio, and electricity.
What is consumerism?
During the Great Depression, the cost of goods decreased rapidly because no one could buy goods. This is an example of which economic principle?
What is the law of supply and demand?
Funds state and local public works projects.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
What is the Glass-Steagall Banking Act