People
1920s culture
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FDR's ideas
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100

Longest serving president (4 terms)

Who is FDR?
100

Young women who went against what was socially acceptable by having short hair, wearing short skirts, going to jazz clubs, smoking, and dancing

What are Flappers?

100

The place where stocks are bought and sold

What is the stock market?

100

Program that helped older Americans and those who had lost their jobs

What is the Social Security Act?

100

The United States entering WWII helped make the Great Depression ______________

What is better?

200

Tried to fix the Stock Market Crash of 1929, but ended up causing the Great Depression

Who is Herbert Hoover?

200

Selling goods to consumers and consumers buying those good

What is consumer culture?

200

The worst economic period in history

What was the Great Depression?

200

Series of programs and projects those goals were relief, reform, and recovery for Americans

What is the New Deal?

200

This president's reputation was harmed by his corrupt friends who took bribes and got rich

Who was Warren Harding?

300

Promised Americans a return to normalcy after WWI        

Who was Warren Harding?

300

The cultural movement in the black community that was full of creativity and identity

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

300

Makeshift homes built in public places during the Great Depression

What are Hoovervilles?

300

During the Great Depression, this percent of people lost their jobs and the rest lost about 1/3 of their salaries.

What is 25%?

300

This president refused to serve more than two terms in office

Who was Calvin Coolidge?

400

Believed the U.S. government spent too much money and fought to reduce wasteful spending

Who was Calvin Coolidge?

400

The three things that the 1920s were known for 

What are growth in businesses, increased consumer culture, and the new forms of entertainment?

400

Christians who stood for the basic teachings of the Bible

What are Fundementalists?

400

Idea that promised rewards in exchange for votes

What is a political machine?

400

Challenged laws that prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools

What is the Scopes Trial?

500

Secretary of the Treasury who helped lower taxes, pay of war debts, and businesses grow and be successful

Who was Andrew Mellon?

500

The four new forms of entertainment in the 1920s

What are the phonograph, radio, motion pictures, and jazz music?

500

Christians who wanted to update Christianity

What are Modernists?

500

FDR’s idea that if a justice did not retire at 70 years old, he would just add another justice to the Supreme Court that would support his ideas

What is "court packing"?

500

Hoover’s plan to fix the stock market by having businesses pay higher wages to employees, increasing tariffs, and raising taxes

What was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?