The Great Depression
This 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What was the stock market crash?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in the U.S in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
This buying method allowed people to purchase goods and pay for them over time.
What is buying on credit?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
After WWl, many Americans feared this political ideology, which calls for the overthrow of capitalism.
What is communism?
This U.S president created the New Deal to fight the depression.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This nickname described modern and independent women who rebelled against the norm (wore short skirts and bobbed their hair).
What is a Flapper?
This invention became a household must-have and spread advertisements nationwide.
What is the radio?
He was a famous Jazz musician known for his trumpet playing and gravelly voice.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
Labor unrest, including over 3,600 of these in 1919, made Americans fear a worker in uprising.
What are strikes?
During the Great Depression, this percentage of Americans were unemployed at its peak.
What is 25 percent?
This was the first year women could vote in a U.S presidential election.
What is 1920?
He was known as the father of modern assembly line production.
Who was Henry Ford?
This major movement saw African Americans moving from South to Northern cities in search of better opportunities.
What is the Great Migration?
These 1919-1920 events involved thousands of arrests and deportations of suspected radicals.
What are the Palmer Raids?