1920s
This president's administration was associated with the Teapot Dome scandal.
Warren G Harding
This type of music became increasingly popular during the 1920s.
What is jazz?
The dramatic decline in stock prices on October 29, 1929.
What was the Stock Market Crash?
During the Great Depression, many Americans waited in long lines at these locations to receive free food.
What are soup kitchens?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems were called these.
What are muckrakers?
This amendment prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
These women challenged traditional gender roles with shorter skirts and bobbed haircuts.
Who were flappers?
The period of severe economic hardship beginning in 1929.
What was the Great Depression?
This 1930 law raised tariffs on imported goods and led many countries to reduce trade with the United States.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
This war helped the United States gain overseas territories in 1898.
What was the Spanish-American War?
This industry revolutionized transportation and was dominated by Henry Ford.
What is the automobile industry?
This 1925 trial involved the teaching of evolution in schools.
What was the Scopes Trial?
Many investors bought stocks using this risky practice.
What is buying on margin?
Factories and farms produced more goods than consumers could buy, creating this economic problem.
What is overproduction?
Eugenics, immigration quotas, and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s all reflected this broader trend.
What is nativism (or fear of outsiders)?
Ford used this production method to make cars faster and cheaper.
What is the assembly line?
President when the stock market crashed in 1929.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Shantytowns built by homeless Americans were nicknamed these.
What were Hoovervilles?
Approximately this percentage of Americans were unemployed at the height of the Depression.
What is about 25%?
This amendment allowed citizens to directly elect senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This movement claimed that society could be improved by encouraging some people to have children while discouraging others from doing so.
What is eugenics?
This region experienced severe drought and dust storms during the 1930s.
What was the Dust Bowl?
During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican descent were pressured or forced to leave the United States in a movement known as this.
What is Mexican Repatriation?
This law attempted to regulate railroad companies.
What was the Interstate Commerce Act?