Roaring Twenties
What is the name for the cultural and artistic expression among African Americans in 1920s Harlem?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
What day marked the start of the stock market crash?
What is Black Tuesday?
This is the practice of making risky investments for high profits.
What is speculation?
This group of WWI veterans marched to Washington to demand their bonuses.
What is the Bonus Army?
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
What is a flapper?
Buying stocks with borrowed money is called what?
What is buying on margin?
What is the Twenty-first amendment?
These writers were disillusioned with post-WWI America.
Who are the Lost Generation?
Which President created the RFC and is often blamed for not doing enough during the Depression?
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This term refers to characteristics of a population, such age or income level?
What are demographics?
What is the term for a rundown community of homeless people during the Great Depression?
What is a Hooverville?
What is welfare capitalism?
What is the practice where companies offer benefits to prevent strikes?
A neighborhood that grew due to Hispanic immigration in the 1920s.
What is a barrio?
This tariff worsened the global economy during the Depression?
What is the Hawley-Smoot tariff?
What new form of entertainment helped spread mass media during the 1920s?
What is the radio?
What region suffered severe drought and dust storms during the Depression?
What is the Dust Bowl?
The average of 30 significant stock market companies' prices.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
What movement sought to ban alcohol in the 1920s?
What is Prohibition?
This term describes efforts to avoid war and foreign entanglements during the 1930s.
What is isolationism?
What was the main form of music associated with the 1920s cultural movement?
What is jazz?
What economic term describes the ups and downs of the economy?
What is the business cycle?
A local auction where neighbors helped each other buy back farms cheaply.
What is a penny auction.
Name one major author of the Harlem Reneisssance?
Who is Langston Hughes or Zora Neale Hurston?
What was the term for the federal economic programs under FDR?
What is the New Deal?