"Modern" women of the 1920s who wore the latest styles and bobbed (cut to chin-length) their hair.
What is flappers?
100
The 19th Amendment guaranteed what right?
What is woman suffrage?
100
Using a loan from a financial institution to buy stock is called this.
What is buying on margin?
100
Italian anarchists who were convicted and executed for a 1920 murder, after a trial that was widely felt to have been unfair.
What is Sacco and Vanzetti?
100
The New Deal suffered a setback when the __ declared several of the projects unconstitutional.
What is Supreme Court?
200
In the '20s you didn't need a license to operate one of these.
What is automobile?
200
President after Wilson, Warren G. Harding promised the American people "a return to ?"
What is normalcy?
200
In spite of his more serious crimes, Al Capone finally did prison time for this.
What is tax evasion?
200
FDR's plan to save the nation during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
200
Largest dam in Washington State and part of the New Deal:
What is Grand Coulee Dam?
300
During the New Deal artists were paid to create public murals and other large-scale works. True or False?
What is True?
300
Disease that crippled Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1920s.
What is polio?
300
In 1933 this statistic reached 25%.
What is unemployment?
300
Not only was she FDR's wife; she was also his 7th cousin.
What is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
An EXPATRIATE is a person who . . .
What is lives outside the nation of his or her citizenship?
400
Name given to the generation who came of age during World War I, partly due to their disillusionment with life and society.
What is Lost Generation?
400
Shanty towns that popped up in the early days of the Great Depression; they were named after a president who was seen as having done nothing to help people.
What are Hoovervilles?
400
The date October 29, 1928 is synonymous with Black __?
What is Tuesday?
400
After World War I ended, Woodrow Wilson sent some of the AEF to Russia to try and stop the spread of __.
What is Communism/Bolshevism?
400
The TVA, which stands for this, brought electricity to many parts of the southeastern U.S., which was hard hit by the Great Depression.
What is Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
Any person who gained notoriety during the Harlem Renaissance.
What is Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Zora Neale Hurston, Dizzy Gillespie, etc.?
500
This Constitutional Amendment repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st?
500
Administration created during the New Deal to help retirees and others who may not be able to work.
What is Social Security Administration?
500
While living in Spain, he wrote "The Sun Also Rises" and aided in the Spanish Civil War. Another famous novel is "The Old Man and the Sea."
What is Ernest Hemingway?
500
WASP stands for this. Groups like the KKK believe that WASPs are the only genuine Americans deserving full rights.