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Harlem Renaissance
Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
The New Deal
Vocabulary
100
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s was a period when African Americans
Created wonderful works of art and literature
100

The law that made alcohol illegal in America, known as Prohibition

What is the 18th Amendment?

100

The year the Great Depression started and who was President.

1929 and Herbert Hoover

100
What does the WPA stand for?
Work Progress Administration
100

What are the name for women who cut their hair, enjoyed drinking, and dancing in the big cities?

What are flappers?

200

The Harlem Renaissance took place in a neighborhood of this US city.

What is New York City?

200

This amendment over ruled ("repealed") making alcohol illegal.

What is the 21st Amendment?

200
What types of homes did poor people live in during the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
200

The CCC stands for. . .

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?

200
What does F.D.R. stand for?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
300

This music was heard all over Harlem in the 1920s?

What is jazz?

300

This was the name of the underground illegal bars that people used to go dancing at?

What is Speakeasies?

300

What did the Tennessee Valley Association do?

The TVA was a government run energy company to help get people employed.

300
How did people who were unemployed eat food during the Great Depression?
Bread lines Soup Kitchens
300

WWI war veterans protested in Washington, D.C. by camping in front of the Capitol Building. Many had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945.

What is the "Bonus Army"?

400

What is the name for the time period when African Americans left the South to move to the North?

The Great Migration

400

The biggest gangster during the Roaring 20s

Who is Al Capone?

400
What president supported "rugged individualism"
Herbert Hoover
400
What area of government stood between FDR and his New Deal?
The Supreme Court
400

A trial staged publicly for the courts to rule on whether evolution should be taught in schools.

What is The Scopes Trial or Tennessee v. Scopes?

500

This is the name of some of one of the best jazz musicians of the 1920s

Who is Louis Armstrong? Duke Ellington?

500
How many African Americans moved to the North in the 1920s?
500,000 people
500

The unemployment rate by 1932

What is 23% (will take anywhere between 20-25%)

500
What environmental disaster struck during the Great Depression?
The Dust Bowl
500

Raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 in an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists.

What are the Palmer Raids? 

Named after Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer who led the raids.