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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony and other Suffragists worked to get this added to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.

What is The 19th Amendment?

100
This President that served from 1923-1928 was famous for saying, "The business of American is business."
What is Calvin Coolidge
100

The name of the slums that arose during the increasing homeless problem. 

What are Hoovervilles?

100
The "Bank Holiday" was designed to restore confidence in the banks by creating this New Deal policy.
What is F.D.I.C.
100
The Great Depression did not end in America until the beginning of this tragic event.
What is World War II?
200
This group increased its power and wealth dramatically during the Prohibition Era.
What is Organized Crime?
200
This event took place in Tennessee over several weeks. It displayed the social clash that was taking place in America during the 1920s between Religion and Science.
What is the Scopes Trial
200
In his 1932 presidential campaign, he promised the American people a New Deal.
What is FDR
200

This New Deal Agency met regional needs by creating jobs, planting forests, fighting fires, and controlling floods. 

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?

200
This important New Deal agency was created during the second New Deal. It provided pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance and disability payments.
What is the Social Security Act
300

6 million African Americans leave the rural South and move to the urban North from 1910-1970. 

What is The Great Migration?

300
He was President in 1928. After the stock market crash in 1929 many Americans blamed him for not doing enough to help the American people during the Great Depression.
What is Herbert Hoover
300
FDR used the Bank Holiday to enact the Glass-Steagall Act, which provided insurance for savings accounts by establishing the _______________________.
What is FDIC?
300
The most important goal of the New Deal was to provide ______ for Americans that needed them.
What is jobs?
300
FDR's attempt to change this government body was rejected by Congress. Even the American people thought that FDR was trying to gain to much power with this attempted increase in executive power.
What is the Supreme Court?
400
This name was give to an African American section of New York City that witnessed a rebirth of art, music and literature during the 1920s.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
400
Congress passed this in 1930 in an attempt to help American businesses early in the Great Depression. It back fired as European countries protested this act by refusing to buy American made products.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
400

Tremendous droughts killed off hundreds of thousands of acres of crops.  The Great Plains become known as this.

What is the Dust Bowl?

400
This New Deal agency actually paid farmers to destroy their crops during the Great Depression in an attempt to raise the prices of farm goods.
What is A.A.A.
400
These became very popular during the Great Depression because they allowed the American people to escape the hardships of the Great Depression.
What is the movies?
500

The plan created by the American Vice President to help Germany repay its reparations from the Treaty of Versailles.  It earned him a Nobel Peace Prize. 

What is the Dawes Plan?

500

This time period is called the _______due to the economic prosperity of the decade, increased sales of consumer goods, greater efficiency in production, and a drop in prices.

What are the Roaring 20s?

500
During the Great Depression, the U.S. saw this organization grow in size and power. It would play a much larger role in the direction of the U.S. economy and it would supply direct relief in mass to the less fortunate.
What is the Federal Government?
500
The New Deal was the first attempt by the federal government to create "safety net" for needy Americans. This safety net is called the ___________ today.
What is welfare system?
500
During the Great Depression, many Americans began to question the economic stability of a democracy. Many Americans insisted that this form of government may be the best answer for economic uncertainty.
What is Communism?