Roaring 20's
(Fill in the blank) ____________________, which included radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines, fostered a sense of a shared experience that helped unify the nation.
Mass Media
Primarily young men, who took advantage of their homelessness and rode the rails from town to town in search of work and other financial opportunities?
Hobos
What was the nickname given to the New Deal Programs?
Alphabet Soup
What major event eventually pulled the United States out of the Great Depression?
WWII
During the Depression, newly homeless people put up communities of shacks that they called...
Hoovervilles
An unintended consequence of prohibition was?
Organized Crime and Gang Violence
In the 1930s, this factor that accounted for the westward migration of farmers from the Great Plains (Oklahoma, Texas, etc.)
The Dust Bowl
What new technology did FDR take advantage of to talk directly to Americans? What did he call those talks?
Radio, Fireside Chats
This American Sweetheart disappeared and was never found during her attempted flight around the world.
Amelia Earhart
This happens when people try to withdraw all of their funds for fear of a bank collapse. When this is done, the bank can run out of cash, causing the bank to fail.
Bank Run
What was the trial of the century that revolved around the teaching of evolution in the classroom?
The Scopes Trial
Thousands of World War I veterans came to Washington, D.C., in 1932 to lobby Congress to? What was this group called?
Give them their $1000 bonus early. Bonus Army.
New Deal programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were primarily intended to help?
The Unemployed
Langston Hughes is best known for being what?
A Poet
The Woman's Suffrage Movement
The growth of African-American arts in the 1920s became known as the?
The Harlem Renaissance
President Hoover opposed direct federal relief to the unemployed because he believed that...
People should take care of themselves, not rely on government handouts (Rugged Individualism)
Setting up a pension program (monthly payments) for older people and providing support for dependent children and people with disabilities were all part of what program?
Social Security Act
Who made the first successful transatlantic flight in history?
Charles Lindbergh
In 1918, Congress passed the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Prohibition
Many people viewed Sacco and Vanzetti with suspicion because:
They were Italian Immigrants and Anarchists
What was Hoover's response to the Bonus Marchers?
Called them Communists and Criminals and sent the US Military in after them
What are the 3 R's of the New Deal? And what does each one mean?
Relief - Immediate & Temporary
Recovery - Long-Term but not Permanent
Reform - Permanent (still in place today)
The grusome killing of 7 members of the Moran Gang was known as what?
The St. Valentines Day Massacre
What is the name of the belief that one’s land needs to be protected against immigrants?
Nativism