Black History
The Roaring 20s
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Tradition and Change
100

This figure created the NAACP to protest for Black rights and after WWI promoted the New Negro Movement declaring Black veterans "return fighting"

W.E.B. Du Bois

100

Henry Ford used this mass production technique to decrease prices

assembly lines

100

This event marked the start of the Great Depression

stock market crash

100

This Democrat established New Deal program beginning during his First 100 Days in office

FDR

100

These feminists challenged traditional gender roles 

flappers

200

Born enslaved this leader thought Black Americans should focus on economic advancement and acquiring jobs skills

Booker T. Washington

200

Borrowed money banks provided consumers to purchase expensive goods

credit

200

This laissez-faire president took office just before the stock market crashed in 1929

Herbert Hoover

200

FDR used these radio addresses to reassure Americans things would improve and outline his New Deal programs

fireside chats

200

After the Great Migration, jazz musicians and other artists proudly celebrated Black culture and history

Harlem Renaissance

300

This muckraker helped establish the NAACP and exposed the horrors of lynching

Ida B. Wells

300

In the 1920s segregation remained common because of an infamous 1896 Supreme Court decision declaring segregation constitutional as long as facilities were "separate but equal"

Plessy v. Ferguson

300

Hoover encouraged poor Americans to find support from charities that gave out food

breadlines

300

FDR admired this former president for breaking up monopolies using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Teddy Roosevelt

300

During the Scopes Trial these Americans supported Tennessee's Butler Act

Christian fundamentalists

400

This Black nationalist leader called for independent Black wealth and even for Black Americans to move "Back to Africa"

Marcus Garvey

400

Two years after the brutal Red Summer, an economically thriving Black community was burnt and 300 Black citizens were murdered

Tulsa Race Massacre

400

When Mexicans and Mexican Americans were forcibly deported out of the U.S. because of nativist stereotypes 

Mexican Repatriation

400

These poor, often Black, farmers commonly didn't receive New Deal relief because they didn't own the land they worked on

sharecroppers

400

This guaranteed women's suffrage, although Black southerners remained disenfranchised for many more years

19th Amendment

500

W.E.B. Du Bois encouraged Black Americans' brightest to get a liberal arts education so they could lead the Black community forward. What did Du Bois call these "smartest" members of the Black community?

Talented Tenth

500

During WWI this technology was used on the front lines, but after the war it was used to advertise goods

radio

500

On top of financial catastrophe, during the 1930s this racist, nativist group, which re-emerged in the 1920s, continued to wield political power

"new" Ku Klux Klan

500

The three types of FDR's New Deal programs

relief, recovery, reform

500

When alcohol was limited, arguably because nativists stereotyped immigrants as drunks

Prohibition