Started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s.
What is The Great Depression?
100
The New Deal was created by him.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
This began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect.
What is Prohibition?
100
Redefined modern womanhood.
What is a flapper?
100
The communications audience has been viewed by some commentators as forming this with special characteristic.
What is a mass society?
200
The depression originated in the United States, starting with this on October 29, 1929.
What is The Stock Market Crash?
200
These goals of giving Relief to the unemployed and badly hurt farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and promoting Recovery of the economy during the Great Depression were called this.
What are the 3 Rs?
200
This was popular during Prohibition.
What is Legal and illegal home brewing?
200
Was being played in dance halls and roadhouses and speakeasies all over the country.
What is Jazz.
200
It is the sum of the public mass distributors of news and entertainment across media.
What is public media?
300
The stock market crash was known as this.
What is Black Tuesday?
300
In early 1937 almost no new programs were initiated because of the opposition of this.
What is The Conservative Coalition?
300
Large quantities of alcohol were smuggled in from here, overland and via the Great Lakes.
What is Canada?
300
Americans bought more than 100 million of these in 1927.
What is phonographs.
300
This has been widely used in the blogosphere in discussion of the mass media and media bias.
What is "MSM" or "mainstream media"?
400
This rose in the United States to 25%, and in some countries as high as 33%.
What is unemployment?
400
The Supreme Court ruled several programs unconstitutional; however, most were soon replaced, with the exception of this administration.
What is The National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
400
This could be obtained by prescription from medical doctors.
What is Whiskey?
400
Group of people least affected by this period.
What are African Americans?
400
Is the discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying and presenting information regarding current events, trends, issues and people
What is Journalism?
500
He said that "These are days when many are discouraged. In the 93 years of my life, depressions have come and gone. Prosperity has always returned and will again."
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
The first organized opposition in 1934 came from this group led by conservative Democrats such as 1924 and 1928 presidential candidates John W. Davis and Al Smith.
What is The American Liberty League?
500
These stores popped up across the country and some former breweries turned to selling malt extract syrup, ostensibly for baking and "beverage" purposes.
What are "Malt and hop" stores?
500
made technology affordable to the middle class.
What is Mass Production?
500
This can include advertising, marketing, propaganda, public relations, and political communication.