Roaring 20s
This was illegal throughout the 1920s
What is alcohol?
This area of New York became famous for its vibrant Africa-American community
What is Harlem?
Women who challenged traditional norms in society were called this
What are flappers?
this crashed in 1929 which marked the beginning of the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market?
FDR's policies were known as this
What is the New Deal?
This amendment made alcohol illegal
What is the 18th Amendment?
this form of music started in New Orleans and became popularized by African-American musicians
What is Jazz?
this form of mass media became popular in the 1920s
What is radio?
this person was President at the beginning of the Great Depression and was blamed for not doing enough to fix it
Who is Herbert Hoover?
these were known as the three R's of the New Deal
What are recovery, relief, and reform
these were secret nightclubs in the 1920s
What are speakeasies?
This famous poet is one of the most famous African American poets of the 1920s
Who is Langston Hughes?
This court case was about the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools in the 1920s
What is the Scopes Trial?
this is when everyone tries to take their money out of the bank at the same time
What is a bank run?
this reform agency insured bank deposits
What is the FDIC?
this sport became popular in the 1920s
What is baseball?
this movement of African Americans from the south to the North and into cities led to a rebirth of culture
What is the Great Migration?
this form of mass media established a consumer culture
What are magazines?
these were tent towns of homless that cropped up during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
these famous speeches given over the radio helped encourage AMericans during the Great Depression
What are fireside chats?
this was a fear that immigrants might bring communism with them when the came to America
What is the Red Scare?
this form of entertainment provided an escape from depression era realities
What are silent movies?
people bought goods on this during the 1920s when they did not have the money to pay for it at that moment
What is credit
this was the political party of FDR
What is the Democrat party?
this New Deal agency created safeguards for workers by providing retirement guarantees
What is Social Security?