Supreme Court Case that kept the South segregated.
What is 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.
What is jazz?
200
The pseudoscience (fake science) that follows the ideas of Social Darwinism to promote racial superiority. This was based on inaccurate analysis of "survival of the fittest"
What is Eugenics?
200
Why was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial such a huge issue in the 1920's?
What is two innocent men were electrocuted for murder- they war foreign anarchists
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
What is a 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 the 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
The Great Migration
What is when many African American's moved north?
400
A large group of Americans who believed the literal interpretation of the Bible and fought against the teaching of evolution in American schools.
What is Christian fundamentalism?
400
It started with several bombs throughout American cities that were blamed on radicals. Then Palmer started arresting thousands of innocent people because he thought they were communist or because they were foreigners. We deported over 500 people.
What are the Palmer Raids?
400
Tariff rate was raised to the highest point in U.S. history. This ended up dropping the global economy.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
400
Senator from Louisiana in the Democratic Party that began to support socialist ideas that he believed would help the poor and middle class in the Great Depression.
Who is Huey Long?
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.
What is the 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
What is the Scopes Trial?
500
The rate the shows how many people are unemployed in the United States. This number rose to all time highs during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
What is the unemployment rate?
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.