The 20's
The Depression
The 30's
The New Deal
Famous Art and Artists
100
This term for the "new woman" came about during the 1920s. They are usually depicted in short dresses, bobbed hair, and smoking a cigarette.
What is a Flapper?
100
Villages made of shacks and other shanty types of housing built by the homeless during the Great Depression. Their name comes from the man they believe is responsible for their homelessness.
What are Hoovervilles?
100
This Constitutional Amendment, passed in 1933 repeals Prohibition, and makes the sale, transport, and creation of alcohol legal again.
What is the 21st Amendment?
100
This President led the country through the depression and into World War II. His time in office is the longest of any U.S. president, and is marked by massively expanding the role of the federal government.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
100
This man was an influential musician, whose legacy lives on today. He became known as the inventor of soloing in jazz music through his recordings on cornet, trumpet, and vocals.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
200
This name for the 1920's captures the spirit of the decade that marked the beginning of Jazz, the Flapper, and Art Deco.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
200
The President until 1932 who is known for his theory of "rugged individualism", and the blame he often gets for not doing enough to prevent the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
A series of 30 speeches given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that were transmitted over the radio, and brought great attraction to New Deal Programs.
What are the Fireside Chats?
200
This was an effect on the federal budget due to the increase in government spending on New Deal programs to combat the Great Depression.
What is a Budget Deficit?
200
These show performances often featured white men in blackface, romanticizing the experiences of southern slaves in the Pre-Civil War era.
What are Minstrel Shows?
300
This period of flourishing art, music and poetry took place in a New York City neighborhood populated by African Americans.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
This theory of economics believes that a government must invest supply-side into the business community during recession periods to provide the funds to get the economy going again.
What is Trickle Down Economics?
300
This attempt by FDR in 1937 led to legislation increasing the number of judges on the Supreme Court.
What is Court Packing?
300
This program created by the New Deal provides protection for disabled, employed, and retired people, and financed by the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) Tax. A side effect of this program was the establishment of a national identification number.
What is the Social Security Administration?
300
This African American poet, writer, and columnist was known as one of the most prolific of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
An illegal bar that sold Alcohol during prohibition was commonly know as this type of place.
What is a Speakeasy
400
The commonly thought beginning of the Great Depression, where $14 billion was lost in a single day on the Stock Market.
What is Black Tuesday?
400
An event where dirt was blown around, ruining farms, and displacing people from their homes to places like California to find better opportunities.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
This government agency employed 300,000 men at its peak in jobs relating to conservation, and development of Federal, State, and Local lands.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps. or CCC?
400
This painting made in the 1930s depicts common scene of The Great Migration, alongside 59 other paintings called The Migration Series was done by this artist.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
500
The process of a machine, or product breaking or malfunctioning on purpose to encourage the consumer to continue to buy new versions of that product.
What is Planned Obsolescence?
500
This group of protesters were about 17,000 WWI veterans who were seeking payouts from the government to ease the burden of the Great Depression. These protesters camped in Washington D.C. as part of their demonstration, before being dispersed by the military under command of Douglas MacArthur.
Who is the Bonus Army?
500
A Federal Law that raised Tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods, leading to retaliation from other parts of the world, making the Great Depression worse.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
500
This government corporation insures depositors money, saving it from tumultuous conditions of the economy. Since its creation in 1934, not one depositor had lost any insured money.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC?
500
This work entitled Street Life was a commentary on the lives of African Americans living in cities done by this man.
Who is William Johnson?