This type of women began appearing in the 1920s and usually wore short skirts and had short hair.
What is a flapper?
100
This group were known to attack African Americans, sometimes going as far as castration or hanging them from trees.
Who are the KKK (or Ku Klux Klan)?
100
This crash led to the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market Crash?
100
This famous car manufacturer said 'Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. '
Who is Henry Ford
100
This is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, storage, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages
What is prohibition?
200
This is the right of women to vote and to stand for electoral office.
What is women's suffrage?
200
The KKK often burnt this religious symbol.
What is the cross?
200
These 'shanty towns' were named after an American president.
What are Hoovervilles?
200
After the war, immigrants, especially those from southern and easter Europe were often seen as criminals and Communist agents, thanks to this 'Scare".
What is the 'Red Scare'?
200
This well known gangster was convicted on federal charges of tax evasion in 1931 and sentenced to federal prison.
Who is Al Capone?
300
In the USA, this was the year women were given the vote.
What is 1920?
300
This involved the kidnapping of blacks and executing them by hanging and/or burning. They were often carried out on those who had been accused of raping or killing a white person.
What is lynching?
300
This president was important in helping the USA recover from 'The Great Depression'
Who is President Roosevelt?
300
This type of car was built between 1909 and 1928 and a staggering 15 million were built.
What is the Ford Model T?
300
This event was named after a saint and caused the town of Chicago to turn aganst it's most infamous inhabitant.
What is the St Valentine's Day Massacre?
400
This 'First Lady' was elected chair of the UN Human Rights Commission and played a key role in women's rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
400
This acronym represents the only people who could join the clan.
What is WASPs?
400
These people were often blamed for 'The Great Depression', and were offered only a small amount of relief.
Who are the poor?
400
This process created by the Ford Motor Company made the production of cars quick and affordable.
What is the assembly line process?
400
This is the nickname given to the Chicago gangster who during the end of his life had the mental capability of a 12-year-old child due to brain damage caused by the syphilis.
What is 'Scarface'?
500
This amendment to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
500
The head of the KKK was called this name.
Who is the Imperial Wizard or who is the Grand Dragon?
500
In Seattle, the unemployed were allowed to help farmers do this activity for food.
What is picking unmarketable fruit and vegetables? (Or cut wood on scrub timberland).
500
The sales of this communication device rose from less than $2 million a year in 1920 to $600 million in 1929.
What is the radio?
500
The gangster who died on the 25th January 1947, spent 1931-1939 in this famous island jail.