The Roaring 20s
Name of the time period when alcohol was illegal, enacted by the 18th Amendment.
Prohibition
The President who oversaw the beginning of the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
People would wait in ______ for free food during the Great Depression
Bread lines
FDR’s plan to fix the economy after the Great Depression consisting of relief, recovery, and reform.
The New Deal
Carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. They symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s.
Flappers
What was one reason many banks failed during the early 1930s?
Banks had made risky loans and stock market investments.
camps that popped up across the United States as people struggled to find housing and employment
Hoovervilles/Shantytowns
The U.S. President who created the New Deal and helped America out of the Great Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
a period considered to be a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art.
The Harlem Renaissance
Americans used what to purchase newer appliances and technologies in the 1920s
Credit / Installment Buying
The tremendous drought faced in the Midwest. Farmers went broke and were forced to move.
The Dust Bowl
FDR’s radio addresses to the public to explain the New Deal.
Fireside Chats
Secret bars where people listened to jazz and drank alcohol illegally.
Speakeasies
The immediate or short-term cause of the Great Depression when stock values plummeted and the stock market lost $14 billion on this one day
Stock Market Crash / Black Tuesday
At the height of the Depression what percentage of workers were unemployed
25%
A new federal system of old-age and disability insurance and other social welfare programs established by FDR's New Deal
Social Security
people who imported and transported alcohol illegally.
Bootleggers
paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest
Buying on the Margin/Credit
Because of the Depression FDR ordered a ______ for all banks to close temporarily to determine which banks needed to close down and which ones were healthy enough to reopen.
Bank Holiday
Nickname for the federal programs created by FDR to help the economy and put Americans back to work.
Alphabet Soup