Prohibition
This movement argued alcohol caused crime, family breakdown, and poverty and pushed for national banning.
What is the Temperance movement?
This invention brought news and mass media to homes.
What is The radio
This 1929 event is often cited as cause of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This president was widely blamed for not doing enough to stop the early years of the Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This New Deal agency insured bank deposits to the public in order to restore public confidence in banks.
What is the FDIC? (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
This constitutional amendment established Prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This Cultural movement in NYC celebrated African American artistic achievement in the 1920's.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This is why many banks during the early Depression caused people to lose there savings.
What is Bank Failures? (Banks fail to return peoples money to them)
This incident in 1932 where veterans who demanded bonuses were forcibly removed, harming the president’s public image.
What was the March on Washington?
This New Deal program provided jobs for young men.
What is the CCC? (Civilian Conservation Corps)
This Amendment ended Prohibition in 1933.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The phenomenon was caused by destroyed topsoil, poor farming practices, and drought, affecting Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico
What is the Dust Bowl?
This is the term used to describe The Stock Market Crash of October 29th 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
This is the three word summary of FDR’s program goals for addressing the Depression.
What is Relief, Recovery, Reform? (the “Three R’s”)
This Supreme Court case struck down major parts of the NIRA. (National Industrial Recovery Act)
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
These illegal establishments where a popular place to drink during Prohibition.
What are Speakeasies? (secret/underground bars)
This was the inventor of the Model T, the car that revolutionized transportation. (Also set many workplace standards)
Who was Henry Ford?
These WWI veterans marched on D.C., Demanding there bonuses from serving during the war earlier then originally expected.
Who was the Bonus Army?
This controversial 1937 proposal by FDR sought to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
This act established pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid for the disabled.
What is Social Security?
This is why Prohibition is compared to the Fugitive Slave Act.
(Answers Vary)
What is local enforcement of unpopular federal mandates/provoked resistance and evasion/increased social conflict?
This type of women was known for there short hair, short dress and scandalous lifestyle.
Who are Flappers?
This term describes when too much production and too little consumption fueled the start Depression.
What is Overproduction/underconsumption?
This First Lady was known to push her husband to enact certain policies to help the American people.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
This is a lasting effect of the New Deal.
(Multiple Answers accepted)
what is stronger financial regulation (FDIC)/Social Security/Federal safety net, etc.?