This was the name given to people who illegally smuggled and sold alcohol during Prohibition.
What are bootleggers?
This man won the 1928 presidential election off the coattails of Republican success in the 1920's.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This was the name of a series of informal radio speeches by FDR to the American people as a way of reassuring them.
What are fireside chats?
This was a popular style of music that reflected the prosperous and exciting times of the "Roaring 20's"
What is jazz?
This was the most popular device used for entertainment at home in the 1930's.
What is the radio?
This was the name for the celebration of African American culture in a New York town.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This was the name given to the day of October 29th, 1929--the day the stock market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
As soon as FDR became president, the first thing he did in order to address the most pressing economic problem was declaring this.
What is a bank holiday?
This was the name given to rebellious young women of the 1920's who wore short skirts and a bob hairstyle.
Who are flappers?
This "talkie" film was the first movie filmed in color.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
Nicknamed after the state he was born in, this was the name given to president Harding's close friends who were appointed to prominent positions in his executive cabinet who he drank and gambled with.
Who is the "Ohio Gang"?
This was a nickname given to shantytowns as a reflection of Americans' disapproval of the job the president was doing to end the Great Depression.
What are "Hoovervilles"?
This New Deal program was arguably the largest in creating new jobs by spending over $5 billion, which also included jobs for artists, musicians, and writers.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This was a famous African American trumpet player who became the unofficial ambassador of jazz music.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This folk singer became famous for travelling around the country singing songs about working-class America during the Great Depression. Many of his songs were politically critical and were seen by some as anti-American.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
This trial represented the clash of modern scientific ideas and fundamentalist traditional ideas (i.e. evolution vs. creationism)
What was the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
This 1932 event, which ended violently, served as the last "nail in the coffin" for Hoover's chance at re-election.
What is the Bonus Army march?
This FDR plan to protect his New Deal programs by expanding the number of Supreme Court justices ultimately failed to pass.
What is court packing?
This was the name given to the young generation of writers and poets, who were disillusioned after experiencing the horrors of WWI.
What was the Lost Generation?
Famous author John Steinbeck wrote this novel about a migrant farmer family during the Dust Bowl who moved to California seeking a better life.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
Warren G. Harding's presidential legacy was permanently tarnished when, after his death, it was revealed that one of his cabinet members was accused of illegally selling oil-rich lands for a kickback, known as this.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This was a pejorative nickname given to desperate farm families who moved westward to California and Oregon as a result of the Dust Bowl.
What are "Okies"?
This New Deal law created a federal board to protect workers' rights to unionize and collectively bargain with their employers.
What is the National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act?
This man became world famous for being the first to successfully complete a solo transatlantic flight from New York to Paris.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This federal project was created out of the WPA that gave artists jobs to paint murals in worn-down cities during the Great Depression.
What is the Federal Arts Project?