The Roaring Twenties Culture
What innovation helped create a national popular culture in the 1920s?
What is the Radio?
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were best known for contributing to which genre of music?
What is Jazz
What was the longest economic slump in American history called?
What is the Great Depression
Which Amendment changed the Presidential Inauguration Day?
What is the 20th Amendment
What is a tariff?
What is a tax on imported goods.
How did automobiles reshape American life?
What is by giving people more freedom and ending rural isolation
Why did suburbs grow more quickly than cities in the 1920s?
What is automobiles enabled commuting?
What cultural movement saw a surge of creativity among African American poets, writers, and artists in the 1920s?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
What led to falling crop prices in the 1920s?
What is overproduction?
Which Amendment repealed Prohibition?
What is the 21st Amendment
What is overproduction?
What is producing more goods than people can buy?
Why did automobile ownership surge in the 1920s?
What is Henry Ford's production methods made cars affordable?
What type of establishment was a secret drinking club during Prohibition?
What are Speakeasies
What Amendment ended women’s suffrage?
What is the 19th Amendment
Congress contributed to the Great Depression by raising taxes on what?
What are imported goods?
Which Amendment established Prohibition?
What is the 18th Amendment
What is underconsumption?
What is the flip side of overproduction?
Which innovation contributed most to the development of national popular culture in the 1920s?
What is the radio?
Organized crime was a major result of which national policy in the 1920s?
What is Prohibition
Which decade is famously called "The Jazz Age"?
What is the 1920s
How did investors react to the bear market of 1929?
What is they sold their stocks, causing prices to fall further?
Which Amendment granted women the right to vote?
What is the 19th Amendment
A person who buys and sells stocks for clients is called what?
What is a broker?
Borrowing money to buy stocks was called what?
What is buying on margin?
What issue was central to the Scopes trial?
What is teaching evolution in public schools?
What change allowed Americans to spend more time watching sports in the 1920s?
What is increased leisure time?
The unequal distribution of wealth during the 1920s led many Americans to rely on what financial tool?
What is Credit
Which Amendment reduced the time between election and swearing-in?
What is the 20th Amendment
What was the main contributor to bank failures between 1930 and 1933?
What is people losing trust and withdrawing their money?
What type of market occurs when stock prices steadily rise?
What is a bull market?