The Roaring 20s
This famous Ford car was the first to be mass-produced on an assembly line, making it affordable for the average family.
What is the Model T?
These "modern" women of the 1920s wore short hair, shorter skirts, and challenged traditional bhevaiors.
What are Flappers?
October 29, 1929, the day the stock market collapsed, is known by this "colorful" nickname.
What is Black Tuesday?
These makeshift shantytowns, built by homeless people, were named after the President they blamed.
What are Hoovervilles?
This President defeated Hoover in 1932 by promising a "New Deal" for the American people.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt/FDR?
The 18th Amendment began this era, which made the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal.
What is Prohibition?
This 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, finally gave women this right.
What is the right to vote/suffrage?
This term describes the practice of buying stocks with borrowed money, hoping the price will go up.
What is buying on margin?
This environmental disaster in the Great Plains was caused by severe drought and poor farming practices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
FDR used these radio broadcasts to speak directly to the public and restore confidence.
What are Fireside Chats?
These secret, illegal bars were hidden in basements and backrooms during Prohibition.
What are Speakeasies?
This movement in New York City saw an explosion of African American art, literature, and music.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
When a large number of anxious people try to withdraw all their money at once, it is called a "Bank ____."
What is a Bank Run?
Many farmers from Oklahoma who fled the Dust Bowl for California were given this insulting nickname.
What are Okies?
This New Deal program was created to provide monthly payments to the elderly and the disabled.
What is Social Security?
This nickname was given to the 1920s because of the popularity of a specific type of upbeat, improvisational music.
What is the Jazz Age?
These two Italian immigrants and anarchists were executed in 1927, a case many saw as proof of extreme nativism in the US.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
President Hoover's belief that individuals should succeed through their own efforts rather than through government "handouts."
What is Rugged Individualism?
At the height of the Depression in 1933, the unemployment rate reached this record-breaking percentage.
What is 25%?
The "Three Rs" of the New Deal stood for
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
Warren G. Harding won the 1920 election by promising a "Return to _____" after WWI.
What is Normalcy?
This 1925 trial in Tennessee debated whether or not "Evolution" should be taught in public schools.
What is the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
Economists point to the failure of this central banking system to increase the money supply as a major reason the Depression lasted so long.
What is the Federal Reserve?
This group of WWI veterans marched on Washington D.C. to demand early payment of their service certificates.
What is the Bonus Army?
This law is sometimes called the Wagner Act, after its sponsor, Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York. This law allowed workers to join labor unions and work together for better working conditions or salaries with collective bargaining.
What is the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)?