World War I
The 1920s
The Great Depression
The New Deal
US Presidents (1914-1944)
100

This was the year World War I began.

1914

100

Black Americans established a cultural movement in this region of New York City throughout the 1920s. 

Harlem 

100

Although it was not the sole cause of the Great Depression, this event in October 1929 set in motion a chain of events that led to ten years of economic hardship. 

Stock Market Crash

100
FDR campaigned on providing these "Three R's" to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression

Relief, Recovery, Reform

100

This President won four elections. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

200

This was the year the US entered World War I

1917

200

This group experienced the greatest gains during the 1920s. 

The Wealthy

200

This was the name for the settlements established by homeless and unemployed Americans, like the one seen here.

Hoovervilles

200

These two New Deal programs were ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court for being unconstitutional. 

The NRA & AAA

*BONUS* What does each acronym stand for? 

200

This President was elected by a massive landslide in 1932. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

300

Most Americans initially wanted to maintain this policy towards World War I

Neutrality

300

These three groups were largely left behind by the so-called progress and prosperity of the 1920s. 

Labor Unions & Farmers; also minorities. 

300

Americans fleeing the Dust Bowl, like those pictured below, would likely have been headed here. 

California

300

The CCC, WPA, and TVA were all created to do this. 

Put Americans back to work. 

*BONUS* What does each acronym stand for? 

300

This President encouraged private charity and limited government intervention in response to the onset of the Great Depression

Herbert Hoover

400

This event, which occurred in mid 1917, enraged some Americans and began to shift public opinion in favor of joining the War. 

The Zimmerman Telegram

*BONUS*: What did the telegram say? 

400

These two Amendments were enacted to first enforce Prohibition in 1920, and then later to repeal it in 1933. 

18th; 21st

400

These two groups experienced the highest rates of unemployment during the Great Depression

Young workers (16-24) and minorities. 

400

This program, which was created during the New Deal, has remained historically very popular for providing benefits to retired, injured, and unemployed workers. 

Social Security 

400

This President carried on some Progressive reforms, but these forward-thinking views did not extend towards race.

Woodrow Wilson

500

This was the primary reason Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917. 

"Make the world safe for democracy"

500

The headline below reports John Scopes' conviction for teaching the theory of evolution, which illustrated a social division between these two factions of Christians. 

Fundamentalists & Modernists

500

These five (or six) steps describe the deflationary spiral that began in the early 1930s and significantly worsened the effects of the Great Depression. 

500

She was the first woman appointed to a Presidential Cabinet and the architect of several New Deal programs, including Social Security.

Francis Perkins

500

These Presidents reversed the active federal government policies of the Progressive Era and World War I, and replaced them with laissez-faire policies. 

Warren G. Harding (1920-1923) & Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)