Prohibition
The amendment that banned alcohol in the United States.
18th Amendment
The popular music style strongly associated with the 1920s.
Jazz
The 1929 economic disaster involving collapsing stock prices.
Stock Market Crash
The severe economic crisis of the 1930s.
The Great Depression
The photographer who documented suffering during the Great Depression.
Dorothea Lange
The term for illegal bars during Prohibition.
Speakeasies
Women who challenged traditional expectations through fashion and behavior.
Flappers
Buying stocks with borrowed money.
Buying on margin
Shantytowns built by homeless Americans during the Depression.
Hoovervilles
The president who created the New Deal.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The illegal selling or transporting of alcohol.
Bootlegging
Buying products now and paying later.
Installment buying
Risky investing based on hopes prices would continue rising.
Speculation
The environmental disaster that damaged farms in the Great Plains.
The Dust Bowl
The New Deal goal focused on immediate aid.
Relief
The criminal groups that profited from illegal alcohol sales.
Organized crime
The increased buying of goods and products by Americans.
Consumerism
Producing more goods than consumers can buy.
Overproduction
The loss of savings caused when banks closed.
bank failure
The agency that protected bank deposits.
FDIC
The amendment that ended Prohibition.
21st Amendment
Fear of communism and radical political ideas during the 1920s.
The Red Scare
A sudden and widespread panic selling of stocks.
Market panic
Large-scale joblessness during the Depression.
Unemployment
The New Deal goal focused on preventing future economic crises.
Reform