Guess Who?
Famous aviator who flew a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, first woman to accomplish this feat.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
The new "perceived" threat to the United States in the early twentieth century. This threat was sparked by the Russian Revolution and generated the Palmer Raids in the United States.
What is communism?
Another name for the 1920's (Adjective).
What is the Roaring Twenties?
Shantytowns of the homeless, Squatter's camps
What is a Hooverville?
Severe economic crisis lasting from the 1930s until WWII.
What is the Great Depression?
Wrote the Talented Tenth, founded the NAACP, and advocated for colored people's rights in the early 1900s.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Replaced the Victorian woman as the American feminine ideal.
What is flapper?
The prohibition of the buying and selling of liquor in the United States, gave rise to gangsters, demonstrated heedlessness to law
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
The FDIC, CCC, WPA, AAA, TVA, NRA.
What is Alphabet Soup of Federal Agencies?
Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)
What is the Stock Market Crash?
U.S. President who used the slogan "Return to Normalcy", only president to have a cabinet member imprisoned.
Who is Warren Harding?
WWI veterans marched on Washington D.C. seeking a cash bonus promised by Congress in 1924.
What is Bonus Army?
Famous trial in American History about whether or not evolution should be taught in the public schools.
What is Scopes "Monkey" Trial of 1925?
Harding's crooked appointees who used the Teapot Dome Scandal to enrich themselves at the public's expense.
What is the Ohio Gang?
An attempt to stimulate the economy and protect American business by taxing imports at forty-five percent.
What is Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
American President who stated, "the business of America is business", ascended to presidency upon Harding's assassination.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Jobs were left vacant in the North during WWI prompting the move of many blacks from southern farms to the cities, over eight percent of the southern population moved.
What is the Great Migration?
Laws upheld by the Supreme Court stating that racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment ("equal protection").
Organization founded by Du Bois that succeeded in passing the first federal antilynching law.
What is Jim Crow?
What is NAACP?
FDR's legislative package geared towards getting the American economy out of the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
A severe drought in the early 1930s forcing farmers to abandon farms and head west looking for work.
What is the Dust Bowl?
You must answer these three questions to earn all the points.
President of the United States when the Great Depression began.
Established the New Deal and served four terms as U.S. President.
Author during the Harlem Renaissance who wrote many poems, one of these being "Let America be America Again"
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Who is FDR?
Who is Langston Hughes?
"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration...not surgery but serenity."
What is Return to Normalcy?
What is Harlem Renaissance?
FDR's group of advisors.
What is the Brain Trust?
FDR's first action to calm the panic and restore trust.
The name of the chats through which FDR would communicate with the American public.
What is Bank Holiday?
What is fireside?