Civil Rights Movement
She shocked the world when she had an open casket funeral after her son’s brutal lynching.
Who is Mamie Till
Although Teddy Roosevelt had mixed feelings about them, these journalists exposed corporate corruption and workplace hazards.
Who are Muckrakers
Smugglers of illegal booze.
Who are Bootleggers
This President pledged "a new deal for the American people."
Who is Franklin Roosevelt
Although it didn’t necessarily cause the Great Depression, this major event on Tuesday, October 29, 1929, certainly contributed.
What is the Stock Market Crash
You may not remember Claudette Colvin, but you’ll probably recall Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. leading this peaceful protest in Montgomery of 1955.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Written by Upton Sinclair and published in 1906, this novel detailed the gross conditions of America’s meat packing industry.
What is The Jungle
These women were about more than just short hair and tasseled dresses, they wanted a judgment-free social life as well.
Who are Flappers
This New Deal program provided a safety net to retirees. Today it is the largest government expenditure.
What is Social Security
The common name for this ecological disaster explains why the decade is sometimes referred to as the “dirty thirties.”
What is the Dust Bowl
This group of students tested Arkansas’s pledge to desegregate when they enrolled in Central High School in 1957
Who are the Little Rock Nine
This Chicago based journalist and founding member of the NAACP brought attention to the hundreds of lynchings that happened in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Who is Ida B. Wells
You won’t find beer in your local grocery during the 1920s, but you might be able to grab a drink if you stop by one of these joints.
What is a Speakeasy
The New Deal created the Works Progress Administration, later renamed the Work Projects Administration, or WPA to provide unemployed Americans with these.
What are Jobs
To bring in tax revenue, as well as let broke American’s take the edge off their stressful lives, congress ended this progressive era policy in 1933.
What is Prohibition
Before they became known as “Jim Crow” laws, these policies kept African Americans from equal participation in society.
What are Black Codes
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She took aim at John D. Rockefeller when she published her exposé, The History of the Standard Oil Company.
Known as the “New Negro Movement" at the time, we now refer to it by this name, having brought us jazz, dance, poetry, and fashion.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
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Following a series of bank failures, in 1933, the FDIC was created to insure these–up to $250,000 worth.
Communities of hastily constructed shacks were given this nickname, meant to mock the 31st President.
What are Hoovervilles
In 1965, Civil Rights protesters marched from this city to the capital of Montgomery to demand voting access. They didn’t make it far before Alabama troopers beat them back with batons and tear gas.
What is Selma
This photographer captured the gritty side of the Gilded Age with his pictures of the urban poor, which he published in a book titled, How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis
Nicknamed "Satchmo" or "Satch", this trumpeter and vocalist began his legendary Jazz career in the 1920s.
Who is Louis Armstrong
This New Deal organization monitors the stock market and protects against manipulation to ensure that catastrophes, like the Wall Street debacle of 1929, don’t occur.
What is the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Although GDP, wages, and profits were low, this economic figure remained high throughout the Great Depression.
What is unemployment