Prohibition
This constitutional amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Women in the 1920s who embraced new fashions, shorter hair, and social freedoms were commonly called this.
What are flappers?
This environmental disaster in the Great Plains compounded the struggles of farmers during the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This cultural flowering in the 1920s gave rise to renowned African American artists, writers, and musicians, showcasing their contributions to American culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This term describes the collection of programs and reforms introduced by Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat the economic hardships of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This illegal practice of producing and distributing alcohol became widespread during Prohibition.
What is bootlegging?
This constitutional amendment, passed in 1920, granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This series of programs introduced by President Roosevelt aimed to combat the economic effects of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This term describes the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to urban centers in the North during the early 20th century.
What is the Great Migration?
This New Deal agency was created to provide immediate work for unemployed men, focusing on conservation and public infrastructure projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933
What is the 21st Amendment?
This 1925 law, passed in Tennessee, made it illegal to teach evolution in public schools.
What is the Butler Act?
The Great Depression began after this catastrophic financial event in October 1929.
What is the stock market crash?
This author of Their Eyes Were Watching God explored African American folklore and the lives of Black women in her novels.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
This program aimed to provide relief for farmers by reducing agricultural overproduction and stabilizing crop prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
This man was a famous gangster who grew his empire through bootlegging in Chicago.
Who is Al Capone?
This trial highlighted the clash between modernist and fundamentalist values by debating the teaching of evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
The Second New Deal included this piece of legislation, which provided pensions for the elderly and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
What organization was founded in 1909 by W.E Dubois to protest racial violence towards African Americans?
What is the NAACP (The National Association Advancement of Colored People)?
This Second New Deal initiative established pensions for retirees, unemployment insurance, and support for the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
This movement, which gained momentum in the early 20th century, aimed to curb alcohol consumption and its societal effects.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This organization, founded in 1920, defended John Scopes and continues to fight for civil liberties in the U.S. today.
What is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?
He was the United States president during the early years of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
What magazine served as a platform for the NAACP to encourage equal rights?
What is The Crisis?
This program funded large-scale public works projects, including bridges, roads, and schools, to provide jobs and stimulate the economy.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?