Roaring 20s
This 1920 amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The month that we saw the crash of the stock market in 1929
What is October?
This president, elected in 1932, promised Americans a "New Deal" and told the nation that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
These illegal, hidden bars became a staple of American nightlife during the Prohibition era.
What are Speakeasies?
This "R" focused on immediate help for the unemployed and hungry, such as breadlines and direct cash payments.
What is Relief?
This specific style of music, rooted in African American culture, became the defining sound of the decade.
What is Jazz
This environmental disaster, caused by drought and poor farming practices, forced "Okies" to migrate west to California.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This Chicago-based gangster, nicknamed "Scarface," became the most famous organized crime figure of the Prohibition era.
Who is Al Capone?
In the 1920s, many young women broke social conventions by cutting their hair short, wearing shorter skirts, and smoking in public; they were known by this nickname.
What are Flappers?
This "R" focused on "priming the pump" to get the economy moving again through temporary programs like the NRA or AAA.
What is Recovery?
Originally from New Orleans, this musician changed the jazz scene during the roaring 20s
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This economic phenomenon involves a general decrease in the price level of goods and services, which actually made debts much harder to pay off during the 1930s.
What is Deflation?
his author of The Great Gatsby captured the "Jazz Age" glamour and its underlying emptiness in his 1925 novel.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1933, officially repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This "R" focused on long-term permanent programs to prevent another economic disaster and insure the future.
What is Reform?
This 1925 trial in Tennessee pitted fundamentalist beliefs against the teaching of evolution in public schools.
What is the Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
This is the measurement of the total value of all goods and services produced by a country; it fell by nearly 50% between 1929 and 1933.
What is the GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, though she famously disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This "Sultan of Swat" helped make baseball the national pastime of the 1920s, hitting 60 home runs in a single season in 1927.
Who is Babe Ruth?
Critics and historians often argue that while the New Deal provided hope and stability, it was actually this global event that finally ended the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
This period of African American intellectual, social, and artistic explosion took place in a New York City neighborhood during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Because of this "hands-off" government policy during the 1920s, there was very little regulation of the stock market or banking practices.
What is Laissez-faire?
This photographer captured the iconic "Migrant Mother" image, humanizing the suffering of the Great Depression for the Resettlement Administration.
Who is Dorothea Lange?
This practice of buying stocks with a small down payment and borrowing the rest from a broker was a major cause of the 1929 crash.
What is buying on margin?
This specific Reform program, created in 1934, regulates the stock market and prevents corporate abuses like insider trading.
What is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)?