Feeling Depressed
FDR helped to buoy the spirits of the nation during the Depression and WWII with these regular addresses.
What are the fireside chats?
This president was popular during his term, but his administration was tarnished by scandals that were revealed after his death.
Who is Warren Harding?
This was the first widely affordable car.
What is the Model T Ford (the ‘Tin Lizzie’)?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
What colour was a Model T?
Black.
This criminal couple were active in states like New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri in the early 1930s.
Who is Bonnie and Clyde?
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How many people attended their funerals after they were gunned down by law enforcement?
This actor’s career in Hollywood spanned from 1914 until 1952, when he was forced to leave the USA due to his supposed Communist sympathies.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
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What is the name of Chaplin's film from 1936 about workers (the Little Tramp) trying to surviving in an industrialised world?
The effects of the Great Depression were made worse by environmental factors in an area that became known as this.
What is The Dust Bowl?
This president is now widely remembered for his humble attitude and pro-business policies.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
The efficient use of this process made products like the Model T Ford more affordable.
What is the assembly line?
This crime shocked the nation in March 1929.
What is the St Valentine’s Day Massacre?
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Who ordered the hit?
This Oscar-winning film from 1939 featured highly racist and stereotypical African Americans characters, including the maid known as ‘Mammy’.
What is Gone with the Wind?
This piece of legislation provided benefits such as public health, retirement payments and unemployment benefits.
What is the Social Security Act (1935)?
This man served as Secretary of Commerce for many years before becoming president.
Who is Hoover?
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What was he the first president to directly address in his inaugural address?
The development of these was an important impact of the flourishing car industry.
What are sub-industries?
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Name a sub-industry of the car.
Alcohol consumption in the USA did not reach pre-Prohibition levels again until this decade.
What is the 1970s?
This 1934 film was used to advertise consumer products for people from all different social classes.
What is Cleopatra?
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Name one of the products you could buy!
This ‘alphabet agency’ created work for young men between 18-25, as long as they were happy to send the majority of their pay home to their families.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
The most significant opposition to FDR came from this group.
Who is the Supreme Court?
The sprawl of these was possible because of the car.
What are suburbs?
The US’ first large-scale federal police force, which operated between 1929-1933.
What is the Prohibition Bureau?
This system of regulation was introduced in Hollywood between 1927-1934 after a series of scandals rocked the movie industry. Time to get a bit more conservative!
What is the Production Code?
Unemployment had risen dramatically again in 1937-38 thank to this development.
What is the Roosevelt recession?
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What finally ended the Great Depression?
The 1924 Johnson Reid Act was passed under Coolidge, and introduced new restrictions on this.
What is immigration?
This historian said: “Without the new automobile industry, the prosperity of the roaring twenties would scarcely have been possible.”
Who is Leuchtenburg?
At his peak, Al Capone was earning this much every year from his criminal activities (such as prostitution, gambling and bootlegging).
What is $100 million?
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Which city was Capone most associated with?
This was the number of Americans flocking to the movies every week in 1929.
What is 100 million?
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How many had been attending in 1922?