Harlem Renaissance
Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Miscellaneous
100
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s was a period when African Americans
Created wonderful works of art and literature
100
What are the name for women who cut their hair, enjoyed drinking, and dancing in the big cities?
What are flappers
100
What year did the Great Depression start?
1929
100
What does the WPA stand for?
Work Progress Administration
100
What does F.D.R. stand for?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
200
What is the name for the time period when African Americans left the South to move to the North?
The Great Migration
200
What law made alcohol illegal in America?
The 18th Amendment
200
What was the unemployment rate by 1932
What is 23% (will take anywhere between 23-24%)
200
What did the CCC stand for?
The Civilian Conservation Corps
200
What President gave Fire Side Chats?
F.D.R.
300
This music was heard all over Harlem in the 1920s?
What is jazz
300
What amendment over ruled ("repealed") making alcohol illegal
The 21st Amendment
300
What day did the stock market crash?
Black Tuesday
300
How did people who were unemployed eat food during the Great Depression?
Bread lines Soup Kitchens
300
How many African Americans moved to the North in the 1920s?
500,000 people
400
This is the name of some of one of the best jazz muscians of the 1920s
Who is Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington
400
What is the name of the underground illegal bars that people used to go dancing at?
Speakeasies
400
What types of homes did poor people live in during the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
400
What area of government stood between FDR and his New Deal?
The Supreme Court
400
What did the Tennessee Valley Association do?
The TVA was a government run energy company to help get people employed.
500
Daily Double: What do the 1920s name jalopy and mazuma mean
What is an "old car" and "money"
500
What is the name of the biggest gangster during the Roaring 20s?
Al Capone
500
Who was President when the Great Depression started?
President Herbert Hoover
500
What environmental disaster struck during the Great Depression?
The Dust Bowl
500
What president supported "rugged individualism"
Herbert Hoover
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