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This nickname was given to the 1920s because the economy grew quickly and culture changed.
Roaring Twenties
The year when the stock market crashed and helped start the Great Depression.
1929
The worst economic crisis in United States history during the 1930s.
Great Depression
Severe dust storms during the 1930s that destroyed farms in the Great Plains.
Dust Bowl
Homeless camps built by struggling Americans during the Great Depression were called these.
Hoovervilles
Factories used this system to make products faster and cheaper by building them step-by-step.
assembly line
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
19th Amendment
Women in the 1920s who wore new fashions and challenged traditional roles were called this.
Flappers
Government programs created by FDR to provide relief, recovery, and reform.
New Deal
Illegal bar during Prohibition
Speakeasy
This law banned alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933.
Prohibition
The President when the Great Depression began
Herbert Hoover
This president created programs to help Americans during the Great Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many Americans feared immigrants were taking jobs, leading to this belief.
Nativism
This fear during the early 1900s and 1920s that communists and radicals might try to take over the United States.
Red Scare
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature in New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
Music and entertainment became very popular. Jazz music spread across the country.
Jazz Age
Jobs for young men planting trees and building parks
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
WPA (Works Progress Administration)
Government jobs building roads, bridges, and buildings
Helps for elderly and the unemployed
SSA (Social Security Act)
Protected money in banks
FDIC