Roaring Twenties
This is the term for a quickly passing trend or fashion brought on by mass culture
Fad
He was the gangster associated with the culture created by Prohibition
Al Capone
This is the term for an economic slump
This event occurred on October 29, 1929, when stock prices plunged after a selling frenzy and more than $30 billion was lost in stock value
Black Tuesday
This is one of the three main goals of FDR's New Deal, meant to help the jobless, an example would soup kitchens.
Relief
The legal ban of alcohol established by the 18th Amendment was known as this
Prohibition
This star baseball player for the New York Yankees had fans flocking to see him hit home runs
Babe Ruth
This describes the practice of installment buying, or “buy now and pay later”
Buying on credit
This policy allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter the U.S.
The Quota System
This New Deal reform set up pensions for senior citizens and provided the first unemployment insurance
The Social Security Act
These young societal rebels bobbed their hair, wore short dresses, and smoked cigarettes
Flappers
This famous jazz musician grew up in New Orleans playing the trumpet.
Louis Armstrong
This is the clusters of shacks where the homeless lived during the Great Depression. Named after the president who most blamed for the hard times.
Hoovervilles
This period, spanning about three months in 1933, saw FDR pass fifteen major new laws after becoming president
Hundred Days
This is one of the three main goals of FDR's New Deal, meant to ensure the Great Depression never happens again.
Reform
This New York City rebirth of African American culture, featuring many musicians, artists, and writers
The Harlem Renaissance
This biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee was arrested, tried, and found guilty in 1925 for teaching the Theory of Evolution in violation of a state law.
John Scopes
The region in the American great plains where many farmers had to leave because their crops and livestock were dying.
The Dust Bowl
This post-WWI treaty outlawed war, but nothing was set up to enforce peace.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
This New Deal program hired unemployed men to conserve American nature
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
The automobile industry boom that made it possible for the average american to own a car was caused by what?
Henry Ford's invention and use of the Assembly Line.
This president left office in January of 1929, only 9 months before the stock market crash.
Calvin Coolidge
True or False
The Great Depression was partially caused by factories and farms not being able to produce enough
False
The trial where two catholic Italian immigrants faced discrimination and were sentenced to death for murder.
The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
This New Deal was program meant to revitalize the dust Bowl by building dams, deepening rivers, and planting forests.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)