1920s People
The women of the 1920s that challenged traditional roles. (Had bob haircuts and short dresses)
Flappers
What group was known for living in the rural areas and believed heavily in family and religion?
Traditionalists
The Red Scare was the fear of what spreading in the USA?
Communism
What were the homeless communities that developed in city parks across the USA?
Hoovervilles
Term for the "poor drifters" who traveled on trains and slept under bridges
Hobos
President during WW1 that wanted the League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
The Scopes Trial debated the idea of what being taught in schools?
Evolution
What was the Great Dust Bowl?
Environmental disaster caused by drought and farming practices.
What was known as the day the stock market crashed 1929? (Hint: color & name of week)
Black Tuesday
What did President Hoover build during his presidency that provided electricity & water to 7 western states?
A Dam
President during Great Depression that believed in "rugged individualism"
Herbert Hoover
The Prohibition banned the sale and consumption of ________________. Bonus Points: What amendment?
Bonus: 18th Amendment
The Republican administration in the 1920s believed in:
1. Isolationism
2. Laissez-Faire Business Policies
Give definitions of what these mean
Isolationism: Policy of avoiding foreign involvement.
Laissez-Faire: Government staying out of business practices.
Many people were buying things they were never able to afford before thanks to ___________.
Credit, borrowed money
What 3 things (3 R's) was FDR's New Deal focused on?
Relief
Recovery
Reform
President that created the New Deal focused on relief, recovery & reform
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
What was the Great Migration?
African Americans moving North for jobs and opportunity.
Nativism prevented what group from obtaining the “American Dream”?
Immigrants
What were people doing with their money during the bank runs?
Withdrawing their money from the banks
FDR's Fireside chats used what piece of technology?
Radios
Who were the Okies?
Migrants who left the Great Plains for California due to severe drought
Cultural movement celebrating Black identity and creativity. Hint: A neighborhood + "Meaning rebirth"
Harlem Renaissance
Who were the people that sold alcohol when it was illegal?
What were the secret bars people went to party and drink.
Bootleggers
Speakeasies
1. What war did the Bonus Army fight in?
2. What did they want?
1. World War 1
2. They wanted their bonus money early
Name 1 act or program implemented by FDR to help with the Great Depression. Describe what it is.
- Emergency Banking Relief Act: Banks would be inspected
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC): Insurance on savings accounts up to $5,000
- Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA): Lowered production to raise crop prices
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC): Employed people to build roads, cultivate parks & plant trees
- Public Works Administration (PWA): Gave $ to create jobs to public services (Schools, bridges, etc)
- Social Security Act (SSA):Insurance 65+, help for unemployed, help families with disabled children