Cultural Change
What is a girl who lives on the edge, cuts her hair, smokes, goes to speakeasies, and doesn't care what anybody thinks about it?
What is a Flapper
What was the Tulsa Massacre in which black residents of the Greenwood District were murdered called when it first happened?
What is the Tulsa Riot?
Which American President did relatively nothing after the Stock Market crash?
Who is President Herbert Hoover?
Which New York neighborhood could black performers sing jazz, blues, and swing while mixing with a white audience
Harlem
What is the name for the day when the Stock market crashed?
What is Black Tuesday? A second terrible day was Black Thursday.
What is fear of Communism, leading to actions against immigrants including unjust trials and deportations?
What is The Red Scare?
What group used Prohibition as an excuse to form vigilante groups to terrorize African Americans and immigrants saying that they were stopping organized crime?
What is the Klu Klux Klan?
What was the program that dammed up a large river to provide cheap electrical power?
What is The Tennessee Valley Authority?
What is the name of the New Deal Program that was a recovery program that gave jobs to people so that they could build buildings, make art, and employed 8.5 million people?
The Works Progress Administration - WPA
What New Deal Agency insures that if you deposit money in a bank, you will not lose it if the bank fails?
FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
What is the 18th Amendment?
Prohibition - banning the use and sale of alcohol
Double Jeopardy Name at least five New Deal Prograpms
SEC, FDIC, AAA, CCC, WPA, TVA, HOLC, SSA
Where is the area called The Dust Bowl, where overplanting and erosion coupled with drought, caused the topsoil to blow off the land and make farming impossible
What is Oklahoma, Texas,Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota
What is called when you buy stocks not with cash money but by taking out loans
What is Buying on Margin
What year did women get the right to vote and which amendment was it?
What 1920, 19th amendment
What are some of the tactics that women used to get the right to vote?
What is lobbying, holding parades, going on hunger strike and getting positive news printed in newspapers.
What is the technique that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used to promote the New Deal Programs?
What is The Fireside Chat
What specific topic did President Roosevelt explain during the first Fireside Chat?
The President explained the banking system and how his programs (the Bank Holiday, the FDIC) would address them.
Whose music said, "It Don't Mean a thing if you ain't got that swing?"
Who is Duke Ellington?
What did Attorney General Palmer do to accused radicals after his home was bombed in 1919?
What is deporting them to the Soviet Union without trial? The Palmer Raids
What are three problems caused by the Great Depression
What is? 25% unemployment
9000 banks failed
273,000 people lost homes - foreclosed - in 1932
2 million Homeless (comparison - there are 582,000 today)
Al Capone made a huge amount of money running illegal bars, guns, and bank robbery rackets. What is the name of the business Capone was doing?
What is Organized Crime?
What are 3 New Deal Agencies and what did they do?
SEC - Regulates Stock Market
FDIC - Provides insurance for banks
WPA - Work program to build roads and buildings, art
CCC - Work program on camps to put young men to work
AAA - Provides price supports for farm products
Social Security - Provides income during old age and disability
What black poet wrote about being forced to eat at the kitchen table rather than with the rest of the American family in the dining room. He said one day this would change, since "I Am America."
Who is Langston Hughes?
What are the 3 Rs of the New Deal?"
What is Reform, Relief, Recovery?