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A name for the American 1920s, when Jazz became incredibly popular.
What is the Jazz Age?
He was an Iconic American Jazz musician who played the cornet and was nicknamed Satchmo.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
This was and explosion of cultural creativity in an all black NYC neighbourhood.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The lowest era of economic activity in modern American history.
What was the Great Depression?
These gave out free meals of soup & bread to poor people.
What were Soup Kitchens?
The era of huge dust storms that came after a drought in the great plains and forced farmers out of the region.
What was the Dust Bowl?
He was an influential poet, playwright, and author from the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
He was an iconic New York Yankees baseball player in the 1920s.
Who was Babe Ruth?
This sport became known as America’s Favorite Pastime thanks to radio and movies.
What is baseball?
FDR’s government programs meant to help those struggling with the depression.
What was the New Deal?
This program put young men to work protecting natural resources and parks. They planted a lot of trees.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps?
This was a huge program that put people to work building public infrastructure.
What was the Works Progress Administration?
Another name for horseless carriages, which became a major means of transportation in the 1920s.
What is an automobile?
He used mass production and the assembly line to make automobiles affordable to anyone.
Who is Henry Ford?
He was the first to fly his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
This was government program putting people to work transforming the Tennessee Valley with dams and power plants, and is still in use today.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
He was a composer, pianist, & band leader of the swing era who wrote “It Don’t Mean a Thing”.
Who was Duke Ellington?
He was a minimalist pianist & swing band leader known for the Kansas City Swing style.
Who was Count Basie?
This invention became a mode of transportation that “shrank the world."
What is the airplane?
This US president served for most of the Roaring Twenties.
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
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He was a clarinet player & swing band leader known as the “King of Swing."
Who was Benny Goodman?
She was an Atlanta native who wrote Gone with the Wind.
Who was Margaret Mitchell?
It insures people’s money so they do not lose it if a bank goes out of business.
What is the FDIC?
A Government entitlement program that pays people money, usually as a retirement supplement, after they’ve payed into it over a lifetime.
What is Social Security?
What is the Federal Reserve?
She was the main character in Mitchell’s popular novel & movie.
Who was Scarlett O'Hara?
This is the capital city of Germany.
What is Berlin?
He was the leader of Germany in the 30s.
Who was Adolph Hitler?
It's a tax on goods coming into a country.
What is a tariff?
Shares of ownership of a company.
What are stocks?
He was the US president at the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This is a kind of leader with complete control of a country (often brutal).
What is a dictator?
This is an international sporting event held every 4 years in different countries.
What are the Olympics?
He was an Olympic track-and-field champion athlete in 30s.
Who was Jesse Owens?
He was the US president through the Great Depression and WWII.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This is a period of time with little to no rain.
What is a drought?
This was the catastrophic economic event that began the Great Depression.
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
He was a fictional character written by Langston Hughes.
Who was Jesse Semple?
This was the first kind of car manufactured by Henry Ford.
What is the Model-T?
Charles Lindbergh's historic flight ended in this famous city.
What is Paris?