The Roaring 20s
Presidents
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Random Sauce
100
THIS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
THIS PRESIDENT was the only one to be elected to four terms and led the US through the Great Depression AND World War 2.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
100
THIS 1929 EVENT (AKA Black Tuesday) is widely recognized as a major factor and the official start of the Great Depression.
What is the 1929 stock market crash?
100
THIS NEW DEAL PROGRAM, which still exists today, was established in 1935 to provide unemployment insurance, pensions for the elderly (65+), and other benefits.
What is the Social Security Act?
100
The three Rs of the New deal stood for this.
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
200
THIS INFAMOUS GANGSTER was known for his involvement in the illegal alcohol trade during Prohibition.
Who is Al Capone?
200
Before becoming president, HE earned the nickname "The Great Humanitarian" for his work feeding Europe during and after WWI. His presidency was mostly seen as a failure in the eyes of the public as he was criticized for his response to the Stock Market Crash and the subsequent Depression that followed.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
THIS SEVERE DROUGHT affected the Great Plains during the 1930s, worsening the economic situation.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
THIS NEW DEAL PROGRAM focused on environmental conservation and employed young men to plant billions of trees, fight forest fires, build trails, roads, campgrounds, dams, and many other structures.
What is Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
200
THESE were illegal establishments that served alcohol during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
300
THESE REBELLIOUS YOUNG WOMEN of the Roaring Twenties challenged social norms by wearing shorter dresses, bobbing their hair, smoking, and embracing a more liberated lifestyle.
Who are flappers?
300
THIS 1920s PRESIDENT was known for his support of laissez-faire economic policies, as highlighted in his famous quote "The business of America is business". Despite being eligible for a second term, he chose not to run.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
300
THIS TERM refers to the makeshift shantytowns built by homeless people during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
300
THIS NEW DEAL AGENCY was created to provide jobs through public works projects in construction, manufacturing, and the arts. Some examples include creating parks, highways, bridges, and other public structures.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
300
This dance craze of the 1920s was named after the southern city it became popularized in.
What is the Charleston?
400
THIS TERM describes the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in an upper Manhattan neighborhood during the 1920's. Important figures of this time include, but are not limited to: Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Augusta Savage, etc.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
THIS PRESIDENT'S campaign slogan promised a "Return to Normalcy" after World War I. However, his administration was plagued with scandals including the infamous Teapot Dome Scandal in Wyoming.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
400
THIS ACT, passed in 1930, raised U.S tariffs on imported goods, reduced international trade, and worsened the global depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
400
THIS NEW DEAL PROGRAM, which still exists today, insures individual bank deposits to prevent bank failures.
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
400
THIS was a group of World War I veterans and their families who marched on Washington, D.C. in 1932 to demand early payment of their promised bonuses. They were also known as the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.).
What is the Bonus Army?
500
THIS 1927 FILM was the first feature-length motion picture with a synchronized dialogue.
What is "The Jazz Singer"?
500
THESE FOUR PRESIDENTS (name them in chronological order) served from 1921-1945 respectively.
Who is Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Roosevelt?
500
THIS TERM describes a situation where a large number of depositors, fearing their bank might fail, simultaneously rush to withdraw their money from the bank, often causing the bank to actually fail due to the sudden high volume of withdrawals.
What is a bank run?
500
THIS NEW DEAL AGENCY, which still exists today, was created in 1933 to regulate the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
500
THIS PRACTICE of buying stocks with borrowed money contributed to the 1929 crash.
What is buying on margin?