Society in the 1920's
This popular household device let families listen to music, news, and shows right from their living rooms.
What is the radio?
A young woman that broke society gender norms of the 1920's?
What is Flapper
Many Americans were in this kind of financial trouble because they bought too much on credit.
What is debt?
Many people lost these when businesses shut down.
What are jobs?
This US president served the longest presidency in US history and helped the US get out of depression
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
This U.S. law made alcohol illegal from 1920 to 1933.
What is Prohibition?
This popular hairstyle symbolized freedom and rebellion among 1920's women.
What is the bob haircut?
This major stock market event happened on October 29, 1929, and signaled the start of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash (or Black Tuesday)?
Many families lost their homes and lived in these makeshift communities.
What are Hoovervilles?
What are the 3 R's of the New Deal
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
This new way of buying things allowed people to pay in small amounts over time.
What is buying on credit or installment buying?
In 1920, this amendment gave women the right to vote in the U.S.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This group of people often suffered even before the Depression due to low crop prices and debt.
Who are farmers?
This U.S. President was blamed by many for not helping enough at the start of the Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This program in the New Deal provided jobs to young men to rebuild the public and protect the environment.
What is the civilian conservation corporation (CCC)
This cultural movement celebrated African American writers, artists, and musicians in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Many women in the 1920's began working these types of jobs, such as secretaries, teachers, or telephone operators.
What are office or service jobs?
Many banks failed during the Great Depression because people did this all at once.
What is withdrawing their money (a bank run)?
What is the Dust Bowl.
This radio priest criticized the New Deal and FDR for not helping/doing enough for the poor.
Who is Father Charles Coughlin.
This style of dancing, popular in the 1920s, matched the upbeat jazz music.
What is the Charleston?
Women could now go to these places without a male escort, which was a big social change.
What are movies, dance clubs or speakeasies?
High taxes on foreign goods, like the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, caused this to slow down.
What is international trade?
A term used to describe migrant farmers from Oklahoma
who are Okies
This New Deal program helped older Americans by giving them retirement/pension money
What is the social security act.