Roaring 20s
This technology quickly became popular because it allowed people to have their first contact with the world outside their town.
Radio
A large movement of African Americans from south to northern cities
What was the Great Migration?
What is the 14 year period of economic struggle that left many Americans homeless and jobless?
The Great Depression
Because Americans wanted a president who could fix the economy and end the Great Depression, this president was elected.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What was a major contribution to American popular culture made by African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance?
Jazz music
What amendment granted women in America a "voice" because it granted them the right to vote?
19th Amendment
Inflated stock prices, buying on credit, and high tariffs on foreign goods led to what?
The Great Depression
What were the 3 Rs of FDR's New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were individuals of the Harlem Renaisance. What was their contribution?
Music
Because police had little success in stopping bootleggers and speakeasies, this time period is known as a failure.
Prohibition
Many men and boys, known as hoboes, left their families and illegally rode trains around the country in search of what?
Jobs
The President hoped that this program would improve helth and morale of unemployed young men by giving them jobs to plant trees and build parks.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
During the 1920s, the economy was "roaring" after World War I and Americans were able to afford what?
luxuries and technologies
A dought in the midwest that completely dried up the soil of the region came to be known as the what?
Dust Bowl
The Securities and Exchange Comission had to be be created to monitor this after it crashed in 1929.
The Stock Market
The New Deal
Prohibition started and ended with these amendments.
18th and 21th amendments
After the Great Migration, African Americans continued to experience this in the north and the south.
Discrimintion and violence
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was created after this.
Failed economic institutions (Banks closed)
This event ultimately brought America out of the Great Depression.
World War II