Vocabulary
A piece of a company that gains or loses value
What is a Stock?
The banning of alcohol, leading to speakeasies, bootlegging, and organized crime.
What is Prohibition?
American President that created the New Deal
Who is FDR or Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This amendment to the Constitution banned alcohol in America.
The event that marked the end of the Roaring 20s and the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
An economic philosophy advocating minimal government intervention in the economy, prevalent in the 1920s
What is Laissez-Faire?
An economic collapse that occurred in the late 1920s and continued well into the 1930s
What is the Great Depression?
First pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic, from NYC to Paris.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
What is the Red Scare?
This invention allowed people to connect over common things, and FDR used this to conduct Fireside Chats.
What is the radio?
The movement for women's right to vote, culminating in the 19th Amendment in the 1920s
What is Suffrage?
An area of the United States that suffered a severe drought during the 1930s.
a young woman in the 1920s who embraced new fashions and social norms.
What is a Flapper?
The preoccupation with buying goods and services, which surged in the 1920s
What is Consumerism?
Under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the government gave money to farmers & created agencies to reduce economic devastation from the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
An illegal bar or club where alcohol was served during Prohibition
What is a Speakeasy?
Period of African American movement from the South to the North
What is the Great Migration?
Invented the Model T Ford & used the moving assembly line to make purchases cheaper. He also hired people with disabilities to work.
Who is Henry Ford?
a period of great creativity and artistic expression in the African American community, showcasing literature, music, and art
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Homelessness, banks close down, debt, unemployment skyrockets, increases in inflation (prices),
What are the impacts of the Great Depression?
Increased hostility toward immigrant groups and the passing of stricter immigration laws.
What is Nativism?
Bombs were found in the mail of important business owners & political figures.
What is the cause of the Red Scare?
A group that spread around the United States in retaliation to the end of the Civil War, and eventually came back because of immigration, out of hatred for people of color.
What is the KKK?
To capture the realities of this decade, writers often contrasted the flashy new wealth and parties with a deep sense of disappointment left by the war.
What is literature?
European countries did this as a result of the Great Depression, decreasing the value of the dollar.
What is printing money?