1920s vocabulary
Caused the rise of organized crime
What is prohibition?
Illegally smuggled alcohol during Prohibition
Who were bootleggers?
Name given to the shacks that many people during the Depression lived in
What are Hoovervilles?
Election that FDR won in a landslide
What is 1932?
Strict belief in the teachings of the Bible
What is Fundamentalism?
Controversial issue in schools in the 1920s
What is the teaching of Evolution
Made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Reason why farms suffered
What is overproduction?
Name given to the campaign promise of FDR
What is the New Deal?
The state most Americans preferred the U.S. to be in after WWI
What is isolationism?
Supreme Court Case that ruled against teaching evolution in schools
What is Scopes Trial?
Group who led the Prohibition movement.
Who were women?
Name given to the talks that FDR made to the American people
What are the fireside chats?
Name given to the shutdown of the banks for four days
What is the bank holiday?
How most Americans paid for things in the 1920s
What is buying on credit?
The impact that Henry Ford had on the automobile industry.
What is the assembly line and mass production.
Name THREE cultural heroes of the 1920s
Who were Demsey, Ellington, Fitzgerald, Babe Ruth, Armstrong, etc.
Amendment that repealed the 18th Amendment
What is the 21st Amendment?
Term that means government "hands off"
What is laissez-faire?
Name given to the people in America who wanted to keep America American.
Who were nativists?
During the __________________ many Americans were fearful of a communist takeover
What is the Red Scare?
President at the end of the roaring 20s and the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who was Hoover?
Name given to the programs of the New Deal
What is Alphabet Soup?
Happened October 24, 1929
What is the stock market crash?