Harlem Renaissance
The law that made alcohol illegal in America, known as Prohibition
What is the 18th Amendment?
The year the Great Depression started and who was President.
1929 and Herbert Hoover
What are the name for women who cut their hair, enjoyed drinking, and dancing in the big cities?
What are flappers?
The Harlem Renaissance took place in a neighborhood of this US city.
What is New York City?
This amendment over ruled ("repealed") making alcohol illegal.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The CCC stands for. . .
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
This music was heard all over Harlem in the 1920s?
What is jazz?
This was the name of the underground illegal bars that people used to go dancing at?
What is Speakeasies?
What did the Tennessee Valley Association do?
The TVA was a government run energy company to help get people employed.
WWI war veterans protested in Washington, D.C. by camping in front of the Capitol Building. Many had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945.
What is the "Bonus Army"?
What is the name for the time period when African Americans left the South to move to the North?
The Great Migration
The biggest gangster during the Roaring 20s
Who is Al Capone?
A trial staged publicly for the courts to rule on whether evolution should be taught in schools.
What is The Scopes Trial or Tennessee v. Scopes?
This is the name of some of one of the best jazz musicians of the 1920s
Who is Louis Armstrong? Duke Ellington?
The unemployment rate by 1932
What is 23% (will take anywhere between 20-25%)
Raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 in an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists.
What are the Palmer Raids?
Named after Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer who led the raids.