Roaring Twenties
Reform Movement
Great Depression
People
Vocabulary
100
The professional sport that became America's pass-time during the 1920s.
Baseball
100
The people and institutions controlled by political bosses.
Political Machine
100
A system for buying and selling stock.
Stock Market
100
The president of the U.S. at the start of the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover
100
The rapid growth of a city.
Urbanization
200
Emancipated young women that embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s.
Flappers
200
The journalists who searched out and publicly exposed real or apparent misconduct of a prominent individual or business.
Muckrakers
200
A sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity that often affects more than one economy.
Depression
200
She is considered the mother of American modernism.
Georgia O'Keeffe
200
The type of government programs established to help stabilize the economy after the start of the Great Depression.
Recovery
300
The media form that emerged as the most powerful communications tool of the 1920s.
Radio
300
The constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
300
The shantytowns that were constructed out of makeshift shacks made out of scrap materials during the Great Depression.
Hoovervilles
300
The first teacher to be arrested and tried for teaching the theory of evolution.
John Scopes
300
Tax on imported goods.
Tariff
400
The cultural movement that lasted form the 1910s-1930s and centered around the Harlem neighborhood in New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
400
The constitutional amendment that prohibited the sale, consumption, and distribution of alcohol.
18th Amendment
400
The date that the stock market finally collapsed and signified the start of the Great Depression.
October 29, 1929
400
The president that is credited with the New Deal programs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
400
The belief that God created all things out of nothing as described in the Bible.
Creationism
500
The shows during the 1920s that consisted of separate unrelated acts grouped together in one on stage performance, and could include musicians and acrobats to trained animals and comedians.
Vaudeville
500
The law that created the Civil Service Commission to ensure that only qualified people received federal jobs.
Pendleton Act
500
The programs created to respond to and combat the effects of the Great Depression.
New Deal
500
The author that criticized the glorification of war and wrote "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms."
Ernest Hemingway
500
The spending of public funds raised by borrowing rather than taxation.
Deficit Spending
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