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In the early 1900s, many southerners moved to big cities for what reason?
to find better jobs
What type of music was popularized during the Harlem Renaissance?
Jazz
What was the name of FDR's plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression?
New Deal
Why were Sacco and Venzetti mistreated?
Because they were immigrants
Became president after Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
What area of New York did many African Americans move to? It became known for artistic, poetic, intellectual and musical creativity.
Harlem
The 18th Amendment began this period forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Prohibition
Who are people who illegally import liquor?
Bootleggers
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th
Buying on _____ means paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest
margin
What name was given to the movement of African Americans moving from South Carolina to the North for better opportunities?
The Great Migration
The day the stock market crashed in 1929.
Black Tuesday/October 29th
What amendment ended national prohibition?
21st
A court case in 1925 about the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Scopes Monkey Trial
The _________ was a group of WWI veterans and their families who demanded early payment of bonuses
Bonus Army
One of the most famous American poets of all-time, he infused jazz and blues rhythms into much of his work.
Langston Hughes
Name of an illegal and secret bar or saloon that sold alcohol during Prohibition.
Speakeasy
Who was the gangster who dominated the illegal liquor trade in Chicago?
Al Capone
The Scopes Monkey Trial was a debate between...
Science and religion
Hoover Dam
FDR addressed the American public in weekly broadcasts known as:
Fireside Chats
The execution of Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti was another example of the fear of ___________ in the U.S. during the 1920s.
Communism
What movement opposed the use of alcohol?
Temperance
Made it illegal to say anything against the government, the president, or Congress
Sedition Act
In the early 1930s after a drought hit the Great Plains the area became known as the _____________
Dust Bowl