20s Tech
20s Cultural Changes
Key People
Great Depression
New Deal
100

This famous duo help developed the first successful engine-powered flying machine. 

Wilbur & Orville Wright

100

These women rejected traditional ways of thinking and lifestyles. They wore their hair short; wore short dress; and smoke/drank. 

Flappers

100

This government photographer traveled around the nation taking photos of Americans suffering from the Great Depression and Dust Bowl.  

Dorothea Lange 

100

After banks have invested its customers' money unwisely in the Stock Market; many failed. This government agency failed to prevent these thousands of bank closures. 

Federal Reserve 

100

This long-term government program provides money to support retirees; elderly; people with disabilities; orphans.    

Social Security 

200

Guglielmo Marconi developed this transformational invention to quickly communicate news, sports, comedies, and soap operas.

Radio

200

After 13 years of prohibition, the United States had failed to restrict the making; transportation; and sale of Alcohol. Name one reason why Prohibition failed?  

Speakeasies 

Medical/Faith Exemptions 

Gangsters/Rise of Crime

Weak enforcement 

200

This Blues singer became the highest paid Black entertainer in the country. 

Bessie Smith

200

Tuesday October 29, 1929 is known  as what day in American History, when the Stock Market crashed.

Black Tuesday

200

During the Great Depression, the unemployment rate reached a historic high of this percentage.  

25% (1 out of every 4 Americans) were out of work. 

300

Electricity gave Americans hundreds of hours back to spend on leisure (fun) activities. Name 2 labor-saving inventions of the 1920s.   

washing machines, electric stoves, water pumps, vacuums, and refrigerators

300

Over 1.5 million African Americans left the South between 1910 and 1940 due to these push factors (name 2).

Examples:

Lack of Jobs

Low-Paying Jobs

Poor Housing

Poor Schools

Racism 

300

This famous writer made fun of the party lifestyle of many young wealthy Americans in his novel, The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald 

300

In an unsuccessful effort to help American Businesses, President Hoover passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which (helped or hurt) world trade.  

Hurt Global Trade. Tariffs hurt trade.  

300

The President communicated directly with the American people often by these radio addresses. The focus of these speeches were causal explanations of what the government was trying to do to help. Presidential Pep talks.  

Fireside Chats

400

Henry Ford and his company was able to revolutionize the car industry by using.... to quickly produce cars. 

assembly line/mass production

400

This New York Neighborhood became a center for African American culture and gathering place for musicians, writers, and artists.  

Harlem 

400

This Jazz Age artist introduced modernism and abstract elements in their work. They are best known for urban scenes and paintings of the Southwest.

 

Georgia O'Keeffe

400

These communities of homeless and struggling people were named in response to President Hoover's weak actions to end the Depression.  

Hoovervilles

400

This New Deal program hired unemployed single men between 18-25 years old to work on various projects such as planted trees, developed state/national parks, built bridges, flood control projects. 

Ex. Shenandoah National Park


Civilian Conservation Corps


500

Charlie Chaplin and other stars help make this new form of entertainment popular for Americans. These originally silent productions gave rise of a celebrity culture (influenced the way we dressed, how we talked, and how we viewed our world.)


Movies

500

Alcohol was thought of as a social evil (causing poverty; abuse; crime, etc.) Supporters of the Temperance Movement worked to ban alcohol by ratifying this amendment.

18th Amendment

500

This former governor of New York ran successfully for President in 1932. His program called for a "New Deal", where the government would create jobs and provide money to struggling Americans. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

500

Americans had believed that stocks would keep going up and everyone would keep making money indefinitely. This risky business practice is called...? 

Over-Speculation


 

500

This government program insures up to $250,000 of people's money in banks. This insurance program gave Americans confidence in banking. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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