The banning of the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is prohibition?
100
This term refers to the stock market crash of October 29, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
Harlem is located in this city and state.
What is New York, New York?
100
This program provided unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, the arts, and other fields of work.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
100
An emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.
What is a flapper?
200
This was an "underground" saloon or nightclub where liquor was sold illegally.
What is a speakeasy?
200
This President at the start of the Great Depression refused to give direct relief.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
This white supremacy group in the South terrorized African Americans and caused many to move North.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
This program put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, and helping soil-erosion and flood-control projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
200
This person documented the Great Depression through photography.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
300
A policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.
What is isolationism?
300
This is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later for purchases, often on an installment plan that includes interest charges.
What is credit?
300
A genre of African American music that often expresses frustration, sadness or longing.
What is the blues?
300
Created in 1934, this continues to monitor the stock market and enforce laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
300
This was as high as 33% in America during the Great Depression.
What is unemployment?
400
This involved a government official who profited from allowing a private company to drill on government oil fields.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
400
These WWI army veterans that went to Washington to get something they were promised.
What is the Bonus Army?
400
This musical form developed by African Americans in the 1920's.
What is jazz?
400
This insures money that is deposited into banks.
What is the FDIC? (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
400
This event brought about the end of the Depression.
What is World War II?
500
John T. Scopes challenged this Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of evolution.
What is the Butler Act?
500
The name for young/teen boys who rode freight trains across country in search of work.
Who are the Wild Boys or Hoover Tourists?
500
This African American activist wanted to increase black pride and started the "Back to Africa" movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
500
The purpose of this was to provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
The region including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930s.