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The banning of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
Which athlete helped make baseball the most popular sport of the 1920s?
Babe Ruth
Which household appliance helped power companies expand their business?
Toaster
What were the names of slums during the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
helped struggling elderly people gain financial security
What is the Public Works Administration?
These were illegal bars typically run by criminal groups.
What are speakeasies?
What were Amelia Earhart's biggest accomplishments?
She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and across the Pacific Ocean.
What caused demand for products to fall throughout the 1920s?
Income Inequality Increase
To make a quick profit off of speculation
Created to alleviate the agricultural crisis by stabilizing farm incomes, reducing overproduction, and increasing the prices of agricultural.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
These amendments banned then subsequently legalized the sale of alcohol in the US.
What are the 18th and 21st amendments?
What were two of the most famous artists of the 1920s and 1930s?
Jacob Lawrence and Augusta Savage.
How did refrigerator companies make their products accessible to the average American?
They offered the option of buying on credit.
How long did people usually wait in soup kitchen lines?
Multiple hours
Shaped the modern housing market and policies and regulations made today.
What is the National Housing Act?
These groups were founded to advocate against alcohol (name one).
What were the American Temperance Society and/or the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
What was the main inspiration for Ernets Hemingway's writing?
He visited Spain during the Civil War.
How did higher tariffs on expected goods affect the U.S. government's relationships with other countries?
It discouraged other countries from purchasing American products.
Why did the stock market crash?
A large group of people sold their stocks, causing more people to sell stocks out of fear
Created regulations that helped investors feel safe investing their money again.
What is the Securities Exchange Act?
This person also added women's rights to the WCTU's agenda, among others.
Who was Frances Willard?
What caused people in America, Germany, and France to want to live life to the fullest?
They survived the worst of World War I and thought they should not waste any time in life.
How did the increase in household products impact women who were homemakers?
It made their jobs harder.
What caused the Dust Bowl in the Midwest?
Farmers got rid of all the grass in order to plant crops, so the soil could get swept away
Injected money into local economies to help support local businesses.
What is the Works Progress Administration?