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African Americans in the 20s
Prohibition/30s
Economics
Great Depression
The New Deal
100

Supreme Court Case that kept the South segregated.

Plessy v. Ferguson

100
I am a famous bootlegger that finally was arrested for tax evasion. I can get away with murder but not from the IRS.
Who is Al Capone?
100
The idea that government should not get involved with the economy.
What is laissez-faire? What is capitalism?
100
Buying high risk stock in hopes that the price will rise
What is speculation?
100
Allows the federal government to oversee farm policy and give farmers subsidies in order to stabilize the price of crops.
What is the Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)?
200

A combination of West African and European music that involves improvisation of notes and melodies on the spur of the moment.

jazz

200

This president beat Herbert Hoover in the 1932 elections and introduced the New Deal to try and improve the economy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

200

Who were the two Italian Immigrants executed for a crime they more than likely did not commit due to a lack of evidence

Sacco and Vanzetti

200
The day that stock market crashed on Wall Street.
What is Black Tuesday of 1929?
200
Employed thousands of young men for projects on public lands and in national parks to preserve natural resources.
What is the CCC? What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
300

An illegal bar that sold alcohol

speakeasy

300
Double Jeopardy Makes the sale and production of alcohol in the United States illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
300

The Secretary of Interior Albert B. Falls sold oil rights to private companies and was illegally paid for the deal. Previously the oil rights were owned by the US Navy. What is this scandal called?

Teapot Dome Scandal

300
Double Jeopardy! As banks ran out of business people began running to the banks to try and take out their money.
What are bank runs?
300
Creates the program that helps Americans save for retirement by taking part of their paycheck each month to be saved by the government.
What is the Social Security Act?
400

What is when many African American's moved north to escape racial segregation and discrimination

Great Migration

400

The federal government made banks close during the Great Depression so the government could put more money into them. What were these days called?

Bank Holidays

400

It started with several bombs throughout American cities that were blamed on radicals. Then thousands of suspected Communist were rounded up and arrested We deported over 500 people.  What were these known as?

Palmer Raids

400

When you buy stocks by taking out a loan to do so what is this known as?

Buying On Margin

400

What program was created to provide Hydroelectric power by building Dams in a rural area that still exists today and is still maintained by the same program...

(TVA) Tennessee Valley Authority

500

A movement in a New York City Neighborhood that promoted art, music, and literature of African Americans that had recently moved to the area.

Harlem Renaissance

500
Amendment that repeals prohibition and allows the sale and production of alcohol again in the United States.
What is the Twenty-first Amendment?
500

A high school biology teacher in Tennessee was fired and fined for teaching evolution on the high school

Scopes Trial

500

The unemployment rate during the Great Depression rose to its highest numbers yet at what percentage?

Bonus Points: What was unemployment for African American during the depression

25%


50%

500
Plan where FDR would be able to add more Supreme Court Justices to the Judicial Branch and this would allow him to nominate his own supporters to the Supreme Court.
What is the "court packing" plan?