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Post-War US Continued
Decade that Roared #1
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The Great Depression
100
The Scandal involving Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal
100
These were people who smuggled liquor into the U.S. from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies.
What is a Bootlegger
100
This man, also known as "satchmo," went on to become perhaps the most important and influential musician in the history of jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong
100
a jazz pianist and composer, led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club.
Who is Duke Ellington
100
A drought in the early 1930s wreaked havoc on the Great Plains. During the previous decade, farmers from Texas to North Dakota had used tractors to break up the grasslands and plant millions of acres of new farmland. Plowing had removed the thick protective layer of prairie grasses leading to this.
What is the Dust Bowl
200
The "Return to Normalcy" U.S. President
Who was Warren G. Harding
200
To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden saloons and nightclubs known as this.
What is a speakeasy; or, What are speakeasies
200
He made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles A. Lindbergh
200
She was the "Empress of the Blues.” In 1923, she sold a million recordings of “Down Hearted Blues.”
Who is Bessie Smith
200
The economic hardships of this era had a tremendous social and psychological impact. Some people were so demoralized by hard times that they lost their will to survive. It would take a New Deal and a World War for the U.S. to pull out of this era.
What is the Great Depression
300
Buy now pay later
What is credit (or an installment plan)
300
During the twenties, a new ideal emerged for some women: one type of emancipated young woman, who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day, women was called this.
What is a Flapper
300
He merged traditional elements with American jazz, thus creating a new sound that was identifiably American.
Who is George Gershwin
300
They were skeptical of some scientific discoveries and theories; they argued that all important knowledge could be found in the Bible. They believed that the Bible was inspired by God, and that there- fore its stories in all their details were true.
What are Fundamentalists
300
These offered free or low-cost food provided by charitable organizations or public agencies.
What are Bread lines/Soup Kitchens
400
During the years from 1920 to 1929, Americans owned around 40 percent of the world’s wealth, and that wealth changed the way most Americans lived, improving a level of material comfort as measured by THIS, or the goods, services, and luxuries available to an individual, group, or nation.
What is Standard of Living
400
a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women
What is Double Standard
400
He coined the term “Jazz Age” to describe the 1920s.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald
400
This was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society.
What is the Scopes Trial
400
It was his conservative response to the Great Depression that drew criticism from many Americans.
Who is Herbert Hoover
500
One vigorous clash between small-town and big-city Americans began in earnest in January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect, it started an era known as this.
What is Prohibition
500
A 1920s literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
500
The ACLU hired HIM, the most famous trial lawyer of the day, to be on the defense during the Monkey Trial..
Who is Clarence Darrow
500
In the spring of 1932, between 10,000 and 20,000 of THESE World War I veterans and their families arrived in Washington, D.C., they were supporting the Patman Bill.
What is the Bonus Army