The Roaring 20s!
This Constitutional amendment, passed in 1920, granted women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1925 trial, also known as the "Monkey Trial," highlighted the clash between modern science and religious fundamentalism over the teaching of evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
During the 1920s, wealth was concentrated in the hands of a small percentage of people, while most workers had stagnant wages, contributing to this economic imbalance.
What is income inequality (or uneven distribution of wealth)?
Many Great Plains farmers were forced to abandon their land due to this ecological disaster, which created massive dust storms throughout the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This president introduced the New Deal in response to the Great Depression, aiming to provide relief, recovery, and reform to the nation.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The 1920s saw the rise of illegal bars known by this name due to the need for secrecy during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
Fear of communism and radical ideas after World War I led to this period of intense suspicion and government crackdowns on suspected anarchists and socialists.
What is the Red Scare?
The Great Depression began in October 1929 when overinflated stock prices collapsed on this infamous day, leading to widespread financial panic.
What is Black Tuesday?
This term refers to the makeshift shantytowns that sprang up across the U.S. as unemployed people lost their homes.
What are Hoovervilles?
This part of the New Deal, established this program to provide financial support to retired workers.
What is Social Security?
Established by the 18th Amendment, made this illegal in the United States from 1920 to 1933.
What is prohibition?
This belief, which grew stronger in the 1920s, favored native-born Americans over immigrants and led to restrictive policies like the Immigration Act of 1924.
What is nativism?
In the 1920s, farmers were already struggling with this economic issue, which caused crop prices to fall and led to widespread debt as they produced more than the market could absorb.
What is overproduction?
During the Great Depression, the federal government began providing this form of assistance to individuals and families, offering food, shelter, and monetary aid to those in dire need.
What is direct relief?
This New Deal program aimed to provide jobs and stimulate the economy by hiring young men to work on environmental and infrastructure projects like planting trees and building parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This cultural movement of the 1920s celebrated African American art, music, and literature, with figures like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston leading the way.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This violent massacre in 1921 saw a prosperous African American community in Oklahoma destroyed by white mobs, resulting in hundreds of deaths and widespread destruction.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This term describes the U.S. government’s high tax policies on foreign imports, which hurt international trade and worsened the depression.
What are tariffs (the Hawley-Smoot Tariff)?
As President during the early years of the Great Depression, this president was criticized for his response to the crisis, particularly this controversial decision to rely on voluntary cooperation from businesses and local governments instead of direct federal intervention.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
A key part of the New Deal, created millions of jobs for workers in various sectors, including this type of public service, which helped build infrastructure such as roads, schools, and airports.
What is public works (or infrastructure projects)?
In the 1920s, this social concept held women to stricter moral and behavioral expectations than men, despite changing attitudes toward gender roles.
What is the double standard?
This infamous trial of Italian immigrants reflected the era’s anti-immigrant and anti-radical sentiments, leading to their controversial execution in 1927.
What is the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
Many consumers in the 1920s relied on this risky financial practice, in which they purchased stocks with borrowed money, making the crash even worse.
What is buying on margin?
This group of World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand early payment of their military bonuses, only to be forcibly removed by the U.S. Army.
What is the Bonus Army?
This New Deal program aimed to restore trust in the U.S. banking system by insuring deposits, preventing people from losing their savings in case of bank failures.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?