Vocabulary
Great Depression
New Deal
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1920s
100
In the 1920s Americans bought items they didn't need and used credit for the first time

What is consumerism?

100

The president at the start of the Great Depression

Who is Herbert Hoover?
100

The president who came up with the New Deal

Who is FDR?

100

In the 1930s a drought decimated the Great Plains region, this was known as the

What is the Dustbowl?

100

This term is used to describe the fear of Communism after WWI

What is the Red Scare?

200

The amendment that created prohibition

What is the 18th amendment?

200

The time period that FDR forced Congress to stay in session to pass his programs

What is The First 100 Days?

200

What were the 3 goals of the New Deal?

What were relief, recovery and reform?

200

This was as high as 25% during the Great Depression

What is unemployment?

200

Women of the 1920s who pushed the boundaries and broke the traditions previously held by society regarding a woman's role in the social order were known as


What are flappers?

300

WWI Veterans who came to Washington D.C. for early payment of bonuses of wartime service

Who is the bonus army?

300

A series of radio talks where FDR explained the New Deal programs to the American people

What are the Fireside Chats?

300

Much of the New Deal programs were deemed this

What is unconstitutional/illegal?

300

What was an immediate result of "Black Tuesday"?

What is millions lost their life savings?

300

Court case over the teaching of evolution in public schools

What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?

400

Illegal smuggling of alcohol during prohibition

What is bootlegging?

400

What event is blamed for starting the Great Depression?

What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

400

The political ideology who thought the New Deal programs went too far

Who are the conservatives?

400

Hoovers belief in this concept led to a lack of direct aid to those in need

What is Rugged Individualism?

400

These two Italian immigrants were charged with homicide in the 1920s

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?


500

A literary and artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated African-American culture

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

500

What would you call a group of cardboard houses set up in a public park or street alley?

What are Hoovervilles?

500

Name one of the New Deal programs

What is...?

500

Liquor, during the 1920s, was sold behind closed doors in establishments that went by this name.

What were speakeasies?

500

Believed to be the single worst incident of racial violence in American history 

What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?

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