The Roaring Twenties
The term used to describe Americans purchasing more goods because products were becoming cheaper and easier to afford.
What is consumerism?
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote nationwide in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This constitutional amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol beginning in 1920.
What was the 18th Amendment?
This event on October 29, 1929, became known as "Black Tuesday."
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This president introduced the New Deal to help Americans during the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This practice allowed Americans to purchase goods immediately and pay for them over time, leading to rising debt.
What is buying on credit?
This famous trial involved a teacher accused of violating state law by teaching evolution.
What was the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This law was passed to enforce Prohibition and outlined penalties for violating it.
What is the Volstead Act?
These makeshift communities were named after the president many Americans blamed for the Great Depression.
What were Hoovervilles?
These radio broadcasts allowed President Roosevelt to speak directly to the American people
What were Fireside Chats?
This industry became the driving force of the 1920s economy because it stimulated demand for steel, rubber, glass, gasoline, and road construction.
What is the automobile industry?
This cultural movement celebrated African American literature, music, and art in New York City.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This revived organization grew to millions of members during the 1920s by promoting nativism, white supremacy, and "traditional values."
What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This environmental disaster devastated Great Plains farmers during the 1930s.
What was the Dust Bowl?
This New Deal agency insured bank deposits and helped restore Americans' trust in the banking system.
What was the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
Supporters of this movement embraced new fashions, dancing, and greater social freedom for women.
Who were the Flappers?
This migration saw millions of African Americans move from the rural South to northern and western cities.
What was the Great Migration?
This belief held that immigrants, particularly those from Southern and Eastern Europe, threatened American culture and society
What is nativism?
This group of World War I veterans marched on Washington in 1932 to demand early payment of promised bonuses.
Who were the Bonus Army?
This New Deal program brought electricity to many rural areas that had never had power before.
What was the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
This system of mass production, perfected by Henry Ford, lowered prices and made consumer goods accessible to millions of Americans.
What is the Assembly Line?
This period of fear led the government to target suspected communists and radicals after World War I.
What was the Red Scare?
This 1921 event in Oklahoma saw a white mob destroy a prosperous African American community known as "Black Wall Street," reflecting racial tensions during the 1920s.
What was the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This 1935 law established pensions for the elderly and unemployment insurance.
The New Deal is often summarized by these three goals. (3 R's)
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?