People
Women dancers in the Roaring 20s, usually wearing tassel dresses and smoking a cigarette
What is a flapper?
An act to keep the retired elderly out of poverty by providing them insurance and aiding those with disabilities
What is the Social Security Act?
Amendment which ended the Prohibition of alcohol in the US, repealing the 18th amendment
What is the 21st amendment?
Social and artistic movement in Harlem, NY that helped with African American art.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress
Who were "Hoovervilles"
Author of "Grapes of Wrath"
Who is John Steinbeck?
Guarantees basic rights of private employees, trade unions, and allowed collective bargain
What is the Wagner Act?
Political party formed in 1912 by Roosevelt to split up the Republican Party
Progressive Party
laws banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
What is prohibition?
Set of laws starting in 1921 that set qoutas for the number of immigrants let in.
What were the Immigration Acts?
The wife of President Franklin who was a strong advocate of human rights
Who is El
Was established by president Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. This administrations goal was to eliminate competition by creating fair practices and bring the industry, government, and labor together.
What is the National Recovery Administration?
FDR's attempt to add a new Supreme Court Justice for each one on the bench over the age of 70
What is Court Packing?
In 1925 a high school substitute taught the theory of evolution
What was the Scopes Trial?
a group of people disconnected from their country and its values post war
Who was the "Lost Generation"?
Wrote "I too"
Who is Langston Hughes?
Government federal agency that insures mortgage loans
What is the Federal Housing Act?
Republican politician and the 11th Chief of Justice
Who is Chief Justice Charles Hughes
Presidential closing of banks four days during the Great Depression to help recover
What was the Bank Holiday?
Franklin D. Roosevelt easily defeated the Republican nominee, Alf Landon.
What was the outcome of the election of 1936
People who believes in and advocates for strict religion and scripture
Who are Fundamentalists?
A federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics.
What is the Hatch Act?
Calvin Coolidge won in a three way contest
Who won the election of 1924
1923 - oil companies bribed the secretary of the interior in order to drill on public lands
What was the TeaPot Dome Scandal?
poet, wrote "The Waste Land", one of most influential poems of the century
Who was T.S. Elliot