The Roaring 20s
One of the first automobiles affordable to the masses.
What is the Model T
A shanty town during the Great Depression named after the President at the time.
What are Hoovervilles?
This President created the New Deal.
Who was FDR?
This leader of a crime syndicate based around Chicago made an estimated $100 million during the prohbition.
Who was Al Capone?
As of 2021 this surpassed 28 trillion dollars.
What is the national debt?
This style of music was popular in the 1920s.
What is Jazz?
An event that occurred on Black Tuesday.
What is a stock market crash?
This was voluntary public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.
What was the CCC?
An illegal bar during prohbition.
What is a speakeasy?
An aviator who first flew across the Atlantic in his plane the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927.
Who was Charles Lindberg?
A time period when America became very concerned about potential communist threats.
What is the Red Scare?
An environmental disaster which caused there to be terrible black blizzards.
What was the dust bowl?
He was a populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which he deemed not radical enough.
Who was Huey Long?
An event which caused the murder of seven mobsters in a Lincoln park Garage.
What was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?
A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. This approach was more commonly practiced before the Great Depression.
What is lassiez faire? (or lassiez faire economics)
A court case about the teaching of evolution in school.
What was the scopes trial?
An organization that insures bank deposits created as a result of the New Deal.
What is FDIC?
This economic indicator did drop as a result of the New Deal but it did not drop to pre-depression levels until after World War 2.
What is unemployment?
An addition to the US Constitution which outlawed the sale manufacture and transportation of alcohol
What is the 18th amendment?
This was the only thing that President Roosevelt said during a speech that we should fear during the great depression.
What is "fear itself"?
A limit on the number of immigrants, the use employed this method for the first time in the 1920s.
What is a quota?
A tax on imported goods is sometimes blamed for worsening the great depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley tariff?
A federal agency best known for providing retirement benefits.
What is social security?
This was a law which led to the enforcement of the prohibition. A first conviction could result in a fine up to $1,000 and imprisonment up to six months. Property used in breaking the law could be seized. The law was initially vetoed by President Wilson.
What was the Volstead act?
a theory of management popularized by Taylor and Ford that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity.
What is scientific management?