Roaring 20s
Stars like Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Clara Bow, and Charlie Chaplin provided escape from Depression-era realities with this form of entertainment in the 1920s.
What are movies?
At the beginning of the 20th century, the vast majority of black Americans lived in this region of the United States.
What is the South?
This inciting event ultimately served as the starting for the era of economic depression known as the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash of 1929?
The New Deal followed a three-pronged strategy, often called the “three Rs,” these are what those three Rs represent.
This term was used to describe young women of the 1920s who behaved and dressed unconventionally.
Who are flappers?
African Americans were discriminated against in this president's New Deal program.
Who is FDR?
During the Great Depression, these two statistics drastically increased.
What is homelessness and unemployment?
This New Deal program insured money deposited in banks.
During prohibition, this group made and distributed the majority of alcohol in the 1920s.
Who are gangsters and organized crime?
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Write a creative newspaper headline that Americans might have seen about the Harlem Renaissance
Mr. Welch Decides
This groups of Americans was most directly affected by the Great Depression.
Who were Farmers?
This New Deal program developed the domestic infrastructure.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
With the influx of immigrants after WW1, this organization came back in a new Nativist form.
Who are the KKK?
This movements saw the widespread migration of African Americans to large cities in the North and West.
What is the Great Migration?
High protective tariffs, such as the Hawley-Smoot Act led to a decline in this.
What is world trade?
This New Deal program prevented overproduction of agricultural products.
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)?
Ultimately, the Scopes Trial was centered around John Scopes teaching this topic to rural High School students in Teneessee.
What is evolution?
These were the major push factors for African Americans in the 1920s and 30s to move to large cities in the North and West
What was poor economic conditions, sharecropping, and ongoing racial oppression?
This president failed to address the needs of the American people during the Great Depression leading to the creation of tent cities named after him.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
The New Deal influences the public's belief in the responsibility of the federal government to do these things.
What is deliver public services, intervene in the economy, and promote the general welfare?