The Jazz Age Culture
What is the 18th Amendment (or Prohibition)?
This constitutional amendment, which became law in 1919, outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages.
This infamous day, October 29, 1929, is known as "Black Tuesday" and marked the most dramatic single-day collapse of the stock market. What event are we talking about?
The Stock Market Crash.
This was President Roosevelt's first official action after taking office in 1933, designed to stop massive withdrawals and restore confidence in the financial system.
Bank holiday
This president, defeated in the 1932 election, believed in "rugged individualism" and resisted direct federal relief to the poor.
Herbert Hoover
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This was the flourishing Black artistic and cultural movement of the 1920s, celebrated for its literature, art, and the rise of Jazz music.
Due to drought, high winds, and poor farming techniques, this natural and economic disaster struck the Great Plains, forcing many to migrate west. How is this event known?
The Dust Bowl
Known by the initials CCC, this popular program put young unemployed men to work on environmental projects like planting trees and building roads and parks.
Civilian Conservation Corps
This Second New Deal act, passed in 1935, established a federal system of pensions for the elderly and unemployment insurance.
Social Security Act
The rise of mass culture in the 1920s was largely driven by this new technology, which allowed families across the country to hear the same music, news, and presidential "fireside chats". What technology is this?
The radio.
People who migrated from the drought-stricken Great Plains to places like California in search of work were often insultingly referred to by this term.
Okies
This New Deal program was designed to raise crop prices by paying farmers to reduce their crop and livestock production.
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Known by the initials WPA, this large-scale agency put millions of people to work building public infrastructure and employed artists, writers, and musicians.
Works Progress Administration
What was the Scopes Trial?
The Scopes Trial involved a high school teacher in Tennessee being tried for teaching this controversial scientific theory in the classroom.
Before 1933, the federal government lacked this important safety measure/institution, causing hundreds of thousands of Americans to lose all their savings when these institutions failed.
Banks
This massive federal project created dams and power plants along a major river to bring electricity and economic development to the rural seven-state region of the Southern U.S..
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The Wagner Act (or National Labor Relations Act) strengthened the rights of workers to form these organizations and engage in collective bargaining.
Unions/Labor Unions
What is credit (or installment buying)?
It's when consumers buy items like cars and appliances with a small down payment and paid the rest in small installments (monthly/yearly).
This shantytown, built by the homeless from scrap materials, often appeared on the outskirts of cities and was named ironically after the president in office at the time.
Hoovervilles
In the first phase of the New Deal, Congress passed this law that provided direct cash aid to the unemployed, the sick, and the needy.
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?
A lasting legacy of the New Deal is that it fundamentally expanded the federal government's role, making it responsible for these two core areas of American life.
Economic stability and social welfare