Technology
A machine that allowed people to work in one town and live in another
What is the car?
New words, generally used only by young people or people of a particular subculture.
What is slang?
The idea that things get better, the problems of the past get solved, and the future will be brighter for everyone.
What is Progress?
An extended drought centered on Oklahoma involving massive loss of topsoil. Called the greatest manmade natural disaster prior to climate change.
What is the Great American Dustbowl?
The main way to get news BEFORE the 1920s.
What is a newspaper?
The scandalous part of a woman's anatomy that was exposed by 1920s fashion?
What is her ankle?
A political philosophy that argued that the means of production should belong to the people?
What is Communism/Socialism?
What you call it when everyone tries to withdraw their money from the bank at the same time.
What is a bank run?
A device that was popular in the 1920s & 30s that brought national bands and professional shows into your home.
What is the radio?
The style of music played by Black people in the 1920s and 30s that also appealed to many whites.
What is jazz?
Women first won it in Wyoming in 1869, then nationwide in 1921.
What is the vote/suffrage?
A windstorm that drives thick clouds of dirt.
What is a "black blizzard" or "dust storm."
At the beginning of the 1920s, they were silent, but by the end most had dialogue.
What are movies?
The Great Migration
What is southern Blacks moving to northern cities?
The US President during most of the Great Depression
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
An extended period in which the economy gets smaller and nobody has any money.
What is a depression?
A show of a mix of music, skits, and comedy (often bawdy) that was popular up through the 1920s, but gradually declined after the invention of movies.
What is Vaudeville?
The flowering of black culture that began in a New York City neighborhood in the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A neighborhood of huts built of scrapwood and rocks, named for the US President who was doing nothing to help the people who lived there.
What is a Hooverville?
The event in October, 1929, that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is Wall Street/Stock Market Crash?