These individuals smuggled alcohol during Prohibition.
Who are bootleggers?
What is the New Deal?
He reassured Americans through radio broadcasts known as Fireside Chats.
Who is FDR?
This law paid farmers to reduce crop production to raise prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Women who embraced new freedoms, fashion, and independence.
Who are flappers?
Secret underground bars where alcohol was illegally sold.
What are speakeasies?
These makeshift shantytowns were named after an unpopular president.
What are Hoovervilles?
Who is Herbert Hoover?
FDR's attempt to increase the number of Supreme Court justices.
What is the Court-Packing Plan?
This term describes the movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities for jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The day the stock market crashed in 1929 had this colorful name.
What is Black Tuesday?
This group resurged in the 1920s and promoted anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, and racist beliefs.
Who are the KKK?
This law provided financial assistance to the elderly, unemployed, and disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
Fear of communism in the US after the Russian Revolution led to this period of paranoia.
What is the Red Scare?
He was a notorious mob boss who controlled the alcohol trade in Chicago.
Who is Al Capone?
The government agency that insured bank deposits to prevent future failures.
What is the FDIC?
The president whose administration was involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
A program that built roads, schools, and hospitals while creating jobs.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
The 1921 attack on a wealthy Black neighborhood in Oklahoma.
What is the Tulsa Massacre?
This amendment banned the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This program provided jobs for young men to work on environmental projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
These two Italian immigrants were controversially executed, highlighting anti-immigrant sentiment.
This agency built dams to provide electricity and jobs in the South.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This government action arrested suspected communists during the Red Scare.
What are the Palmer Raids?