Changings in the 20's
Prohibiting the sale, manufacturing, and distribution of alcohol
What is the 18th Amendment?
First baseball superstar who hit 60 homeruns in a season.
Who was Babe Ruth?
Accruing debt with interest to obtain items now
What is credit?
Buying stocks with borrowed money
What is "buying on margin"?
This invention from the 20's was one of the few entertainment opportunities found in most households during the Great Depression
What is the Radio?
Radio broadcasts with Franklin D. Roosevelt to promote New Deal programs
What are Fireside Chats?
African Americans moving from the South to Northern industrial cities to earn more money and work in factories
What is The Great Migration?
Was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic; later disappeared attempting to fly solo around the world.
Who is Amelie Earhart?
Known for Assembly Line efficiency, making the Model-T affordable for everyday people and paying higher wages to his employees
Who was Henry Ford?
Lost more than $30 Billion in value in a single day
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Proposed by FDR, these greatly expanded the power and role of the federal government
What are the New Deals?
Insured housing loans with low down payments and flexible mortgage rates
What is the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)?
19th Amendment permitted this
What is Women's Suffrage?
Trumpet player that popularize Jazz music to the masses
Who was Louis Armstrong?
People in the 1920's could first buy goods now and pay over time using a _______________ plan
What is an installment plan?
President _____________________ proposed ___________ ____________ to help with the Relief, Recovery, and Reform of the United States (2 Answers)
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who proposed New Deals?
Make-shift “towns” from the many homeless and unemployed people after the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
What are Hoovervilles or Shantytowns?
Provide old-age pensions and unemployment insurance
What is the Social Security Act (SSA)?
The resurgence of black culture through music, poetry, art, and other mediums in the burrows of New York
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Silent film actor know for his slapstick comedy
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Notorious mob boss who finally was caught for tax evasion and spent time at Alcatraz Prison
Who was Al Capone?
His response to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was to do nothing and the economy would correct itself
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This fighter's family struggle to survive the collaspe of the Stock Market, and made the most of one last fight, knocking out the heavyweight contender.
Who was Jim Braddock?
Employed millions to build public infrastructure (roads, bridges, schools) and funded art programs
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Affluent black neighborhood in North Tulsa that was destroyed in June, 1921 due to an inaccurate newspaper article
What is Black Wallstreet or Greenwood District?
This famous segregated night club in Harlem was known for attracting the best African American performers for white-only audiences
What was the Cotton Club?
Young women of the 1920's who rejected traditional social norms through dress and behavior
Who are "flappers"?
This group of WWI veterans marched on Washington, D.C. to demand early payment of their bonuses
Who was the "Bonus Army"?
The combination of severe drought, over-farming and poor land management led to this
What is the "Dust Bowl"?
Guarantee the rights of private-sector employees to unionized
What is the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)?