LIFE OF THE 1920s
These women were known as "Flappers" who defined the "new woman" of the 1920s.
What is a women of the 1920s who defied traditional ideas, wore shorter dresses, had short hair, smoked cigarettes, and wanted equality in relationships?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Ended by the 21st Amendment in 1933, Prohibition was created through the ____ Amendment that banned the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol in 1919.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The name given to parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico that experiences catastrophic dust storms that were caused by poor agricultural practices and record long droughts.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The New Deal plan had this major impact on the U.S. federal government.
What is the expansion of the federal government, its role in American lives, and its powers?
A new form of purchasing power that allowed buyers to buy now, pay later (there are 2 names for it!).
What is credit and installment plans?
The 1920s saw a clash of values between people who lived in ________ and _________ environments.
What are urban and rural environments?
These were smugglers who hid alcohol and sold it illegally.
What are Bootleggers?
Americans of the Great Depression blamed this man.
Who is the 31st President Herbert Hoover?
These were the three Rs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal plan.
What is Relief, Reform, and Recovery.
A piece of equipment that drastically changed American life, tourism, the restaurant industry, and suburbs.
What is the automobile?
A mass movement of African Americans to northern cities to escape Jim Crow laws and seek employment opportunities.
What is The Great Migration?
These were negative effects of Prohibition.
What is increased organized crime, no government revenue from alcohol taxation, average American exposure to criminal activities, underground network of alcohol distribution?
This is the term used by Herbert Hoover to describe the American people and their ability to pull themselves out of the Great Depression.
What is "Rugged Individualism"?
FDR attempted to change this body of government that had struck down his New Deal programs, resulting in him losing support from his own party and the general public.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
The radio had this effect on urban and rural populations.
What is connecting urban and rural populations on a national scale to create a shared culture?
Led by W.E.B. Du Bois, this organization fought for civil rights and equality for African Americans. (THE FULL NAME)
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
This Act allowed the Federal Government to enforce the 18th Amendment, and created a task force to track down its violators.
What is the Volstead Act of 1920?
This was the process of purchasing stocks on credit, lent out by a broker (loaner).
What is buying on margin?
Organizations like the Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and National Youth Administration employed Americans by having them do these activities.
What is building roads, schools, bridges, railroads, airports, hiring artists, and recording the history of former slaves?
The first film to introduce sound that is critically acclaimed as the 90th best movie of all time.
What is The Jazz Singer?
This was known as the Scopes "Monkey" Trial that pitted the ideas of _______ against _______.
Who are Fundamentalists and Evolutionists?
These were positive effects that Prohibition had on Americans.
What is reduced public drunkenness, reduced domestic abuse, reduced alcohol related illness, conserving agricultural resources, returning to traditional values?
These were the 5 primary causes of the Great Depression (must get a majority).
What is risky financial behavior (buying on credit), the stock market crash of 1929, overproduction and underconsumption of goods (agricultural and industrial), bank failures, drought conditions.
This organization took action to reduce the effects of the Great Depression by reducing the money supply, and changing monetary policies to prevent inflation and bank failures.
What is the Federal Reserve?