Roaring 20's
What is a speakeasy?
This was an illegal underground saloon or nightclub that sold alcohol during Prohibition.
This secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies was a major scandal during the Harding administration.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This is the day the stock market crashed, leading to the start of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
This was the name given to the legislation and programs passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s.
What is the New Deal?
These shanty towns were mockingly named after the president many citizens blamed for the economic crisis.
What are Hoovervilles?
This term describes a young woman of the 1920s who embraced new urban attitudes and a more assertive independence.
What is a flapper?
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer implemented these to combat the perceived Communist threat in the US.
What were the Palmer Raids?
This is the practice of buying stocks on the chance of a quick profit while ignoring the risks.
What is speculation?
This New Deal agency insured individual bank accounts, restoring public confidence in banks.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
This was the derogatory nickname for the farmers and sharecroppers who had to abandon their farms and migrate west, primarily to California.
Who are Okies?
This period refers to a flowering of African-American artistic, literary, and musical creativity in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The belief in nativism that swept the nation in the 1920s was a prejudice against these people.
Who are the foreign-born (or immigrants)?
This was a major cause of the Great Depression where a huge gap existed between the rich and the poor.
What is the unequal distribution of wealth?
This New Deal program focused on providing work and wages for young men on conservation projects like planting trees and building roads.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This environmental disaster in the 1930s on the Great Plains was caused by severe drought and years of over-plowing.
What is the Dust Bowl?
He was the famous jazz musician who helped popularize the genre with his talent for improvising trumpet solos.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
The quota system of the 1920s was designed to do this to the number of people who could emigrate to the United States.
What is limit or restrict immigration?
This high protective tariff reduced the flow of goods into the US and caused other nations to retaliate, worsening the Depression.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
This act provided old-age insurance, unemployment compensation, and aid to families with dependent children and the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
This was the financial practice by many Americans in the 1920s that led them to accumulate high debt they could not pay off when the economy contracted.
What is buying on credit?
The Scopes Trial of 1925 centered on the issue of teaching this in public schools, pitting religious fundamentalism against scientific modernism.
What is evolution?
This organization, devoted to "100 percent Americanism" and hostility toward foreign-born people, saw a dramatic rise in membership in the 1920s.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
These shanty towns that popped up during the Depression were mockingly nicknamed this after the president many blamed for the economic crisis.
What are Hoovervilles?
These are the three primary goals of the New Deal, also known as the 3 R's.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This is the long-lasting impact of the Social Security Act on the role of the federal government.
What is establishing an enduring responsibility for the welfare of its citizens (or a permanent social safety net)?