Roaring 20s
Flappers were...
Women who pushed back against the traditional standards for the time
The Stock Market finally crashed on what infamous day.
October 29th; Black Tuesday
The New Deal was the set of policies from which President?
FDR
What amendment outlawed alcohol?
18th Amendment
What made it easy for Woodrow Wilson to win the Election of 1912
Taft and Teddy Roosevelt split the Republican Vote
People used _______ to buy new types of goods such as washers, cars, etc.
Credit
What happened at the beginning of the Great Depression when individuals went to withdraw their money from the bank?
They found that the banks didn't have their money.
Why did Hoover lose to FDR in a landslide?
Voters blamed Hoover for the Great Depression
The Great Migration lead to what artistic movement of African-Americans in the North?
Harlem Renaissance
Yellow Journalism, in part, caused the beginning of what war?
Spanish-American War
Prohibition; 18th Amendment
Who was the President when the Stock Market Crashed? What unfortunate part of society was named after him?
Herbert Hoover; Hoovervilles
New Deal Programs, like CCC and WPA, were the first steps in helping the high number of person who were...
Unemployed
The Scopes Trial put what two viewpoints against one another?
Science and Religion; Traditionalists and Modernists
Immigrants that came to the big cities lived in crowded apartment buildings called...
Tenement Buildings
Langston Hughes was a writer who wrote about what issue in American society?
African-American rights
The Bonus Army was a group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington. What did they want?
Payment from the US Government; Their Bonuses; Pensions
What act during the New Deal helped provide the elderly with reliable income?
Social Securities Act; Social Security
The Sacco-Vanzetti case and their execution was a part of the red scare. Why were they killed?
Suspected of being Communists
What was Woodrow Wilson's 14th Point?
Establish League of Nations
The Membership of the KKK rose greatly during the 1920s. Why was this?
Spread of Nativism in the US; Fear of Immigrants
The Supreme Court stated that many of FDR's new deal policies were unconstitutional. Why did FDR do to turn the Supreme Court in his favor?
Added Justices to the Supreme Court
People were suspicious of one another; Didn't want people to think they were guilty
The Progressive Era changed the way in which we elect US Senators. What changed?
We now vote for our senators directly