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100

This substance was technically illegal throughout the decade, but that didn't stop people from going to speakeasies to drink it.

What is alcohol?

100

This crashed on October 29, 1929, and sparked the beginning the Great Depression.

What is the stock market?

100

This is the name of the environmental disaster that occurred in the Great Plains during the Great Depression because of heavy drought, depletion of the soil, high winds and dust stroms, and caused farming families to migrate to California to look for work.

What is the Dust Bowl?

100

What are the three R's of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal

What is relief (for workers), recovery (of the economy), and reform (of financial institutions)?

100

This Republican president had served as a Senator from Ohio before being elected President in 1920 off his campaign slogan, "Return to Normalcy." He would die in office of a heart attack in 1923 and afterwards several scandals would come forward including an extramarital affair and the Teapot Dome Scandal. 

Who is Warren G. Harding (1920-1923)?

200

Henry Ford popularized this type of manufacturing that could make products cheaply and quickly.

What is the assembly line?

200
This term means that you are gambling on the stock market.

What is speculation?

200
Camps of homeless people were named after this president who many people blamed for the Great Depression.

What are Hoovervilles?

200

President Franklin Roosevelt would get on this communication device throughout the Great Depression to reassure Americans during his famous "Fireside Chats."

What is the radio?

200

This Republican president as the governor of Massachusetts and vice-president before becoming president in 1923 after the death of Warren G. Harding. He supported laissez-faire economics and stated that, "The business of America is business."

Who is Calvin Coolidge (1923-1928)?

300

This style of woman was all the rage in the 1920s with their short hair, public smoking, and short skirts

What are flappers?

300

This is when an entire community panics and withdraws all their money out of the bank and the bank closes.

What is a bank run?

300

Thousands of people would wait in these for hours for food and nourishment.

What are bread lines?

300

This New Deal program hired young men to work outdoors to build roads, trails, and national parks.

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?

300

This Republican president served as the director of the United States Food Administration and the Secretary of Commerce before becoming president in 1928. The first millionaire in the White House, he would be blamed for the Great Depression, which began under his watch.

Who is Herbert Hoover (1928-1932)?

400

This explosion and renaissance of African-American jazz music, art, and writing occurred in this neighborhood in New York City.

What is Harlem?

400

This was the percentage of the population that was unemployed at the height of the Great Depression.

What is 25%?

400

This immigrant group was forced by the government to go back to their native country in order to free up jobs for American workers on farms.

Who are Mexican immigrants?

400

This New Deal program reopened failing banks and insures to this day any and all deposits in banks up to $250,000. 

What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

400

This Democratic president would serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and governor of New York before becoming president in 1932. He would redefinie and expand the role of the federal government as a safety net with his New Deal program. 

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932-1945)?

500

John Scopes was arrested for teaching this theory in his high school biology class in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, and his trial would be national radio sensation with Clarrence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan battling it out in court.

What is Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?

500

This tax on foreign goods were raised to record highs at the beginning of the Great Depression to protect American businesses, but it ended up just making the depression worse.

What is the tariff?

500
Veterans of this war camped out in front of Congress as the Bonus Army, demanding their bonus checks that were owed to them.

What is World War I?

500

This New Deal program offers a retirement pension and unemployment insurance for the elderly and everyone pays for it out of their paycheck.

What is the Social Security Administration?

500

Franklin Roosevelt tried to add six more members of to this branch of government in 1937 after it had blocked two of his more ambitious New Deal programs: the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

What is the Supreme Court?