Harlem Renaissance
Roaring 20's
Prohibition
Depression
Presidents
100
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic movement during the 1920's. It was a time when African American artists, writers, and musician's expressed their creativity and explored themes of racial pride. What city and state was this movement founded?
Harlem, New York
100
This man came up with the idea of the assembly line; a manufacturing process that moved the product from station to station, with workers adding parts at each stage.
Henry Ford
100
The passage of this amendment banned the sale, production, and consumption of alcohol
18th Amendment
100
What was the catalyst of the Great Depression?
Black Tuesday- Stock market 1929
100
Which president is often blamed for the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
200
This poet, novelist, and playwright is known for his role in shaping modern black literature.
Langston Hughes
200
this concept allowed for the sale of more consumer goods and put automobiles within reach of average Americans.
Personal Credit
200
With the sale of alcohol now illegal it allowed for the rise of organized crime. Who was the most well known gangster of the 1920's
AL Capone
200
During the peak of the Great Depression the Dust Bowl lasted over ten years and feeling the effects from California to D.C. these storms covering the great plains resulted in a mass exodus from the region.
Great Plains
200
During FDR's first full day in office what did he famously do?
Closed all banks "bank holiday"
300
The 1920's saw the height of KKK membership. Many songs, poems, and novels depicted personal experiences of the rise of what crime?
Lynching
300
The idea of the modern woman developed from post WW1 challenge of feminine ideals.
Flapper
300
in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, this was a landmark legal case in which teacher John T. Scopes was tried for violating the Butler Act by teaching evolution in a public school. Creationism vs Fundamentalism
The Scopes Trial
300
The primary issues that created the Great Depression (overproduction, under consumption, economic policies that were put in place, and agricultural issues) were primarily results of what two administrations.
Coolidge and Harding
300
President Warren G. Harding’s administration is often remembered for its scandals and corruption, which overshadowed his promises of a “return to normalcy” after World War I. Harding’s unexpected death in office also raised questions about his legacy. Which scandal was most significant in tarnishing the reputation of Harding’s presidency?
Teapot Dome Scandal
400
This civil rights organization still exists today and works to eliminate Racal discrimination and fights for equal rights.
NAACP
400
getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more stocks and securities than you can buy with your available cash is known as
Buying on margin
400
Part of FDR's campaign was to eliminate the Prohibition. What year did the 21st amendment pass and the prohibition end?
1933
400
What were the two worst years of the Great Depression?
32 and 33
400
Harding was the 29th president of the United States, following his death in the middle of his term who took office?
Calvin Coolidge
500
This singer was jailed for one of her most famous songs. Name the person and the song.
Billie Holiday
Strange Fruit
500
The mass production and purchase of the automobile lead to people moving out of the major cities and into suburban areas. The automobile allowed people to travel to work, this growth created what is known as....
Urban Sprawl
500
What were the 3 reasons the prohibition didn't work?
Crime, enforcement, and underfunded
500
A gathering of probably 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans who, with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., in 1932, demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression. President Hoover asked General MacArthur to break up the gathering which resulted in the death of several veterans. Name the group.
Bonus Army
500
“America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality….” What campaign slogan is does this most relate too?
Return to Normalcy