The Roaring 20s
An important decade for American art, literature, and music.
What is the Roaring 20s?
A 1920s period when African American achievements in art, music, and literature flourished.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The policy that the government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.
What is Laissez-faire?
A time of utter economic disaster that began in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
The series of reforms enacted by FDR with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Young women of the 1920s who behaved and dressed in a radical fashion.
Who are Flappers?
Leading African American jazz musician and talented trumpeter.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Buying products by promising to pay small, regular amounts over a period of time.
What is installment buying?
The specific percentage of Americans out of a job during the Great Depression.
What is 25%
This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
United States manufacturer who pioneered mass production with the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life.
Who is Langston Hughes?
These discourage trade between nations by taxing imported goods.
What are High Tariffs?
The President (1929–1933) was associated with the start of the Depression and an "apparent lack of intervention."
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This First Lady was a major supporter of civil rights and the New Deal.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
A Chicago mob king who controlled speakeasies and symbolized the failure of Prohibition.
Who is Al Capone?
African American leader who advocated for a "Back to Africa" movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
To fail to meet a financial obligation.
What is defaulted?
This Republican President's administration was marred by the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
List three New Deal programs (YOU MUST SPELL THEM OUT, not just the abbreviations).
What are CCC, WPA, AAA, FDIC, TVA.
The movement of over 300,000 African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
The act of uniting or bringing together people of different races.
What is integration?
The total value of goods and services produced by a country's residents in a year.
What is Gross National Product/GNP?
A group of Harding’s close friends and political supporters known for corruption.
Who is the Ohio Gang?
This 1933 amendment ended Prohibition by repealing the 18th Amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment?